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+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf;
+
+import java.util.HashSet;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.TestConfigurationFieldsBase;
+
+/**
+ * Unit test class to compare
+ * {@link org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration} and
+ * yarn-default.xml for missing properties. Currently only throws an error
+ * if the class is missing a property.
+ *
+ * Refer to {@link org.apache.hadoop.conf.TestConfigurationFieldsBase}
+ * for how this class works.
+ */
+public class TestYarnConfigurationFields extends TestConfigurationFieldsBase {
+
+ @Override
+ public void initializeMemberVariables() {
+ xmlFilename = new String("yarn-default.xml");
+ configurationClasses = new Class[] { YarnConfiguration.class };
+
+
+ // Allocate for usage
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare = new HashSet();
+
+ // Set error modes
+ errorIfMissingConfigProps = true;
+ errorIfMissingXmlProps = false;
+
+ // Specific properties to skip
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_RM_CONFIGURATION_PROVIDER_CLASS);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_CLIENT_FAILOVER_PROXY_PROVIDER);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_IPC_RECORD_FACTORY_CLASS);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_IPC_CLIENT_FACTORY_CLASS);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_IPC_SERVER_FACTORY_CLASS);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_IPC_RPC_IMPL);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_RM_SCHEDULER);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration
+ .YARN_SECURITY_SERVICE_AUTHORIZATION_APPLICATIONCLIENT_PROTOCOL);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration
+ .YARN_SECURITY_SERVICE_AUTHORIZATION_APPLICATIONMASTER_PROTOCOL);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration
+ .YARN_SECURITY_SERVICE_AUTHORIZATION_CONTAINER_MANAGEMENT_PROTOCOL);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration
+ .YARN_SECURITY_SERVICE_AUTHORIZATION_RESOURCE_LOCALIZER);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration
+ .YARN_SECURITY_SERVICE_AUTHORIZATION_RESOURCEMANAGER_ADMINISTRATION_PROTOCOL);
+ configurationPropsToSkipCompare
+ .add(YarnConfiguration
+ .YARN_SECURITY_SERVICE_AUTHORIZATION_RESOURCETRACKER_PROTOCOL);
+
+ // Allocate for usage
+ xmlPropsToSkipCompare = new HashSet();
+ xmlPrefixToSkipCompare = new HashSet();
+
+ // Should probably be moved from yarn-default.xml to mapred-default.xml
+ xmlPropsToSkipCompare.add("mapreduce.job.hdfs-servers");
+ xmlPropsToSkipCompare.add("mapreduce.job.jar");
+
+ // Possibly obsolete, but unable to verify 100%
+ xmlPropsToSkipCompare.add("yarn.nodemanager.aux-services.mapreduce_shuffle.class");
+ xmlPropsToSkipCompare.add("yarn.resourcemanager.container.liveness-monitor.interval-ms");
+
+ // Used in the XML file as a variable reference internal to the XML file
+ xmlPropsToSkipCompare.add("yarn.nodemanager.hostname");
+ xmlPropsToSkipCompare.add("yarn.timeline-service.hostname");
+
+ // Currently defined in TimelineAuthenticationFilterInitializer
+ xmlPrefixToSkipCompare.add("yarn.timeline-service.http-authentication");
+
+ // Currently defined in RegistryConstants
+ xmlPrefixToSkipCompare.add("hadoop.registry");
+ }
+
+}