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Jonathan Eagles commented on HDFS-6305: --------------------------------------- Kicked jenkins. there are 3 or 4 builds ahead of this one. It may be late tonight to see the results. Jon > WebHdfs response decoding may throw RuntimeExceptions > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-6305 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6305 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: webhdfs > Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha, 3.0.0 > Reporter: Daryn Sharp > Assignee: Daryn Sharp > Priority: Critical > Attachments: HDFS-6305.patch > > > WebHdfs does not guard against exceptions while decoding the response > payload. The json parser will throw RunTime exceptions on malformed > responses. The json decoding routines do not validate the expected fields > are present which may cause NPEs. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)