[HDFS-7588] Improve the HDFS Web UI browser to allow chowning / chmoding, creating dirs and uploading files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.0
• Component/s: ui, webhdfs
• Target Version/s: 2.8.0
• Assignee: Ravi Prakash
• Reporter: Ravi Prakash
• Created: 07/Jan/15 00:00
• Updated: 30/Nov/16 17:30
• Resolved: 30/Nov/16 17:29

Description

The new HTML5 web browser is neat, however it lacks a few features that might make it more useful:
1. chown
2. chmod
3. Uploading files
4. mkdir

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-956 DFSShell/Wen UI should return the metadata of a file
• relates to: HDFS-6751 NN WebUI enhancements

Sub-Tasks

• Implement mkdirs in the HDFS Web UI: Resolved
• Add a flag to WebHDFS op=CREATE to not respond with a 307 redirect: Resolved
• Use the noredirect flag in WebHDFS to allow web browsers to upload files via the NN UI: Resolved
• Support changing ownership, group and replication in HDFS Web UI: Resolved
• Include X-editable for slick contenteditable fields in the web UI: Resolved
• Properly encode WebHDFS requests coming from the NN UI: Resolved
• Allow files / directories to be deleted from the NameNode UI: Resolved
• Allow files / directories to be moved: Resolved
• Implement chmod in the HDFS Web UI: Resolved
• Bring back the feature to view chunks of files in the HDFS file browser: Resolved
• Pagination, sorting and filtering of files/directories in the HDFS Web UI: Resolved
• HDFS Namenode UI: Fix browsing directories that need to be encoded: Resolved