Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-common-issues-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-issues-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59EBADD0E for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 991 invoked by uid 500); 19 Mar 2013 03:37:16 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-issues-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 672 invoked by uid 500); 19 Mar 2013 03:37:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-issues-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-issues@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-issues@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 532 invoked by uid 99); 19 Mar 2013 03:37:15 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:37:15 +0000 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:37:15 +0000 (UTC) From: "Andrew Wang (JIRA)" To: common-issues@hadoop.apache.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [jira] [Created] (HADOOP-9415) Fix NullPointerException in getLinkTarget MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 Andrew Wang created HADOOP-9415: ----------------------------------- Summary: Fix NullPointerException in getLinkTarget Key: HADOOP-9415 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9415 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Sub-task Affects Versions: 3.0.0 Reporter: Andrew Wang Priority: Minor {{HdfsFileStatus#getLinkTarget}} can throw a NPE in {{DFSUtil#bytes2String}} if {{symlink}} is null. Better to instead return null and propagate this to the client. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira