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Vinay updated HDFS-2956: ------------------------ Attachment: HDFS-2956.patch Attaching the patch, Please review Made the renewer optional as per above comments. > calling fetchdt without a --renewer argument throws NPE > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-2956 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2956 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: security > Affects Versions: 0.24.0 > Reporter: Todd Lipcon > Attachments: HDFS-2956.patch > > > If I call "bin/hdfs fetchdt /tmp/mytoken" without a "--renewer foo" argument, > then it will throw a NullPointerException: > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.getDelegationToken(ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.java:830) > this is because getDelegationToken is being called with a null renewer -- 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