[HDFS-11421] Make WebHDFS' ACLs RegEx configurable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.0, 3.0.0-alpha4
• Component/s: webhdfs
• Target Version/s: 2.9.0, 3.0.0-beta1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Harsh J
• Reporter: Harsh J
• Created: 16/Feb/17 10:45
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 17:16
• Resolved: 26/May/17 04:02

Description

Part of HDFS-5608 added support for GET/SET ACLs over WebHDFS. This currently identifies the passed arguments via a hard-coded regex that mandates certain group and user naming styles.

A similar limitation had existed before for CHOWN and other User/Group set related operations of WebHDFS, where it was then made configurable via HDFS-11391 + HDFS-4983.

Such configurability should be allowed for the ACL operations too.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HDFS-11876 Make WebHDFS' ACLs RegEx configurable Testing
• is related to: HDFS-11391 Numeric usernames do no work with WebHDFS FS (write access)
• is related to: HDFS-13996 Make HttpFS' ACLs RegEx configurable
• requires: HDFS-5608 WebHDFS: implement ACL APIs.
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #195