Contracts of LocalFileSystem and DistributedFileSystem should require FileSystem::listStatus throw IOException not return null upon access error ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-7352 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7352 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Components: fs, fs/s3 Reporter: Matt Foley Assignee: Matt Foley In HADOOP-6201 and HDFS-538 it was agreed that FileSystem::listStatus should throw FileNotFoundException instead of returning null, when the target directory did not exist. However, in LocalFileSystem implementation today, FileSystem::listStatus still may return null, when the target directory exists but does not grant read permission. This causes NPE in many callers, for all the reasons cited in HADOOP-6201 and HDFS-538. See HADOOP-7327 and its linked issues for examples. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira