[HDFS-2432] webhdfs setreplication api should return a 403 when called on a directory

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.205.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.0, 1.0.0
• Component/s: webhdfs
• Target Version/s: 0.23.0, 1.0.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Tsz-wo Sze
• Reporter: Arpit Gupta
• Created: 11/Oct/11 05:46
• Updated: 16/Mar/15 18:03
• Resolved: 27/Oct/11 23:22

Description

Currently the set replication api on a directory leads to a 200.

Request URI http://NN:50070/webhdfs/tmp/webhdfs_data/dir_replication_tests?op=SETREPLICATION&replication=5
Request Method: PUT
Status Line: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Response Content:

{"boolean":false}

Since we can determine that this call did not succeed (boolean=false) we should rather just return a 403

Issue Links

• incorporates: HDFS-2426 webhdfs GETFILESTATUAS for a path that does not exist returns a 200 instead of a 404
• incorporates: HDFS-2438 webhdfs setowner and send an empty value for owner returns a 200 and does a no-op, we should return a 400 instead
• incorporates: HDFS-2468 webhdfs create a file and send permission does not set the permission to the expected value
• incorporates: HDFS-2508 webhdfs getfileblocklocations is not returning the correct block information when multiple blocks are present