[MAPREDUCE-3433] Finding counters by legacy group name returns empty counters

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.1
• Component/s: client, mrv2
• Target Version/s: 0.23.1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Thomas White
• Created: 18/Nov/11 19:03
• Updated: 05/Mar/12 02:49
• Resolved: 29/Nov/11 05:13

Description

Attempting to find counters with a legacy group name (e.g. org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task$Counter rather than the new org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskCounter) returns empty counters. This causes TestStreamingCombiner to fail when run with YARN.