[HDFS-12162] Update listStatus document to describe the behavior when the argument is a file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-beta1
• Component/s: hdfs, httpfs
• Target Version/s: 3.0.0-beta1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Ajay Kumar
• Reporter: Yongjun Zhang
• Created: 19/Jul/17 18:58
• Updated: 25/Sep/17 22:03
• Resolved: 14/Aug/17 18:37

Description

The listStatus method can take in either directory path or file path as input, however, currently both the javadoc and external document describe it as only taking directory as input. This jira is to update the document about the behavior when the argument is a file path.

Thanks xiaochen for the review and discussion in HDFS-12139, creating this jira is the result of our discussion there.

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-12542 Update javadoc and documentation for listStatus