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Daryn Sharp commented on HADOOP-8724:
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The issue is that user code doesn't know if the path is a glob, so
{{listStatus}} is used if the path is considered a literal, whereas
{{globStatus}} handles both literals and globs. So code just calls
{{globStatus}} if a glob is allowed.
A new {{Glob}} with a ctor that takes a regexp might be useful, but it has a
few problems. How would it handle paths with multiple globs in it? Variadic?
I might not understand your full intent, but how would a user input provided
path be decomposed?
> Add improved APIs for globbing
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> Key: HADOOP-8724
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8724
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Robert Joseph Evans
> Assignee: Robert Joseph Evans
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> After the discussion on HADOOP-8709 it was decided that we need better APIs
> for globbing to remove some of the inconsistencies with other APIs. Inorder
> to maintain backwards compatibility we should deprecate the existing APIs and
> add in new ones.
> See HADOOP-8709 for more information about exactly how those APIs should look
> and behave.
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