[HDFS-14342] WebHDFS: expose NEW_BLOCK flag in APPEND operation

• Type: Task
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: webhdfs
• Assignee: Anatoli Shein
• Reporter: Anatoli Shein
• Created: 06/Mar/19 20:32
• Updated: 29/Aug/19 00:54

Description

After the support for variable length blocks was added (HDFS-3689), we should expose the NEW_BLOCK flag of APPEND operation in webhdfs, so that this functionality will be usable over the rest api.