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Rakesh R commented on HDFS-8368:
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Attached a patch where it checks the {{fileInfo}} existence. Since there are 
few existing unit test cases {{TestDistributedFileSystem#testDFSClient}} to 
verify the behavior, I haven't included any more. Please review. Thanks!

> Erasure Coding: DFS opening a non-existent file need to be handled properly
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-8368
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8368
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>            Reporter: Rakesh R
>            Assignee: Rakesh R
>         Attachments: HDFS-8368-HDFS-7285.00.patch
>
>
> This jira to address bad exceptions when opening a non-existent file. It 
> throws NPE as shown below:
> {code}
> java.lang.NullPointerException: null
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.open(DFSClient.java:1184)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$3.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:307)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$3.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:303)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystemLinkResolver.resolve(FileSystemLinkResolver.java:81)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.open(DistributedFileSystem.java:303)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.open(FileSystem.java:767)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.TestDistributedFileSystem.testDFSClient(TestDistributedFileSystem.java:359)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.TestDistributedFileSystem.testAllWithNoXmlDefaults(TestDistributedFileSystem.java:666)
> {code}



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