[REEF-215] Tests fail on Window machines configured to prevent symbolic links

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.11
• Component/s: REEF
• Assignee: Markus Weimer
• Reporter: Markus Weimer
• Created: 20/Mar/15 00:15
• Updated: 13/Apr/15 16:54
• Resolved: 13/Apr/15 16:54

Description

The tests currently fail on Windows machines configured not to allow symbolic links. That is somewhat common in the enterprise setting and we should address it. The build failure is:

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Mar 19, 2015 5:12:55 PM org.apache.reef.util.REEFVersion logVersion
INFO: REEF Version: 0.11.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 1.802 sec <<< FAILURE! - in org.apache.reef.examples.hello.HelloHttpTest
testHttpServer(org.apache.reef.examples.hello.HelloHttpTest)  Time elapsed: 1.75 sec  <<< ERROR!
java.lang.InternalError: Should not get here
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsNativeDispatcher.CreateSymbolicLink0(Native Method)
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsNativeDispatcher.CreateSymbolicLink(WindowsNativeDispatcher.java:890)
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.createSymbolicLink(WindowsFileSystemProvider.java:578)
        at java.nio.file.Files.createSymbolicLink(Files.java:1043)
        at org.apache.reef.runtime.local.client.FileSet.createSymbolicLinkTo(FileSet.java:95)
        at org.apache.reef.runtime.local.client.DriverFiles.copyTo(DriverFiles.java:142)
        at org.apache.reef.runtime.local.client.LocalJobSubmissionHandler.onNext(LocalJobSubmissionHandler.java:108)
        at org.apache.reef.runtime.local.client.LocalJobSubmissionHandler.onNext(LocalJobSubmissionHandler.java:48)
        at org.apache.reef.runtime.common.client.REEFImplementation.submit(REEFImplementation.java:101)
        at org.apache.reef.client.DriverLauncher.run(DriverLauncher.java:127)
        at org.apache.reef.examples.hellohttp.HelloREEFHttp.runHelloReef(HelloREEFHttp.java:102)
        at org.apache.reef.examples.hello.HelloHttpTest.testHttpServer(HelloHttpTest.java:38)