[HDFS-7816] Unable to open webhdfs paths with "+"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.0
• Component/s: webhdfs
• Target Version/s: 2.7.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Haohui Mai
• Reporter: Jason Darrell Lowe
• Created: 20/Feb/15 17:14
• Updated: 10/Apr/15 20:29
• Resolved: 19/Mar/15 13:06

Description

webhdfs requests to open files with % characters in the filename fail because the filename is not being decoded properly. For example:

$ hadoop fs -cat 'webhdfs://nn/user/somebody/abc%def'
cat: File does not exist: /user/somebody/abc%25def

Issue Links

• is broken by: HDFS-6662 WebHDFS cannot open a file if its path contains "%"
• is broken by: HDFS-7279 Use netty to implement DatanodeWebHdfsMethods