[SPARK-10172] History Server web UI gets messed up when sorting on any column

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0, 1.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.1, 1.6.0
• Component/s: Web UI
• Labels: regression
• Assignee: Josiah Samuel Sathiadass
• Reporter: Min Shen
• Created: 23/Aug/15 04:58
• Updated: 01/Oct/15 18:07
• Resolved: 17/Sep/15 21:05

Description

If the history web UI displays the "Attempt ID" column, when clicking the table header to sort on any column, the entire page gets messed up.

This seems to be a problem with the sorttable.js not able to correctly handle tables with rowspan.

Issue Links

• breaks: SPARK-10873 Change history to use datatables to support sorting columns and searching
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #8506 (josiahsams)