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Colin Patrick McCabe updated HDFS-4626: --------------------------------------- Summary: ClientProtocol#getLinkTarget should throw an exception for non-existent paths (was: Fix NullPointerException in getLinkTarget) > ClientProtocol#getLinkTarget should throw an exception for non-existent paths > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-4626 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4626 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: namenode > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Andrew Wang > Assignee: Andrew Wang > Priority: Minor > Attachments: hadoop-9415-1.patch, hadoop-9415-2.patch, > hadoop-9415-3.patch, hdfs-4626-1.patch > > > {{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