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Daryn Sharp commented on HDFS-12614:
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I've not liked the inconsistency with whether the root inode's name is
considered null or empty string. However I've been leery to touch it since it
is a public method and inevitably something somewhere always breaks when
fixing/changing semantics.
I'd be more comfortable with the change in the call to the attr provider in the
code you reference above.
I'll take this chance to rant a bit about how enabling an attribute provider
ruins a lot of the work I put into reducing all the string/byte conversions.
Those aren't cheap. The interface is fundamentally flawed: an attr provider
requires converting each byte[] component of the path back into a string
multiple times. Ie. The path {{"/a/b/c"}} requires calling the attr provider
with: {{""}}, {{"", "a"}}, {{"", "a","b"}}, {{"", "a","b", "c"}}. Every
single one of those strings were freshly (re)converted from a byte[]. Bonus
points if you avoid all the redundant conversions. I punted on it because at
the time we had no intention of using the attr provider but now we might.
> FSPermissionChecker#getINodeAttrs() throws NPE when INodeAttributesProvider
> configured
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>
> Key: HDFS-12614
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-12614
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0-beta1
> Reporter: Manoj Govindassamy
> Assignee: Manoj Govindassamy
> Attachments: HDFS-12614.01.patch, HDFS-12614.test.01.patch
>
>
> When INodeAttributesProvider is configured, and when resolving path (like
> "/") and checking for permission, the following code when working on
> {{pathByNameArr}} throws NullPointerException.
> {noformat}
> private INodeAttributes getINodeAttrs(byte[][] pathByNameArr, int pathIdx,
> INode inode, int snapshotId) {
> INodeAttributes inodeAttrs = inode.getSnapshotINode(snapshotId);
> if (getAttributesProvider() != null) {
> String[] elements = new String[pathIdx + 1];
> for (int i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
> elements[i] = DFSUtil.bytes2String(pathByNameArr[i]); <===
> }
> inodeAttrs = getAttributesProvider().getAttributes(elements,
> inodeAttrs);
> }
> return inodeAttrs;
> }
> {noformat}
> Looks like for paths like "/" where the split components based on delimiter
> "/" can be null, the pathByNameArr array can have null elements and can throw
> NPE.
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