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Sanjay Radia commented on HDFS-2316:
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Alejandro raised the following 4 issues for discussion:
# rename - should the target path contain the /webhdfs prefix since a client
app will want to simply take the target path and use it as part of a read
operation.
# should getStatus return the paths with the /webhdfs prefix
# Why is the scheme of the webhdfs file system "webhdfs:" and not "http:"
# case sensitivity - make the parameters lower case rather than have the filter
convert them since pathname and the user name should not be converted.
My initial thoughts are:
* for 1 and 2: the rename target path and the paths in the filestatus should
NOT contain contain /webhdfs since /webhdfs is not really part of the
parameters but a part of the rest api's "headers".
* for scheme - i don't think we should use a prexisting scheme name. Nfs
community has used webnfs as the scheme for accessing nfs over http.
* I am fine with lower case parameters.
> webhdfs: a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP
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> Key: HDFS-2316
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2316
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
> Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
> Attachments: WebHdfsAPI20111020.pdf
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> We current have hftp for accessing HDFS over HTTP. However, hftp is a
> read-only FileSystem and does not provide "write" accesses.
> In HDFS-2284, we propose to have webhdfs for providing a complete FileSystem
> implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP. The is the umbrella JIRA for
> the tasks.
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