Hello John, This suggestion seems good and we will take a look into sufficiently bubbling up the exception message to the java action error descriptor.
Thanks, -- Mona Chitnis On 7/19/12 6:29 AM, "John Armstrong" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi everybody. > >I'm writing a status-reporting method in my webapp that has some of its >processing handled by Oozie on the back-end. Basically, in such a case >my program polls Oozie about the particular job, then chops the response >down to the parts that would be useful to report. > >When a java action dies due to an exception, the message in the >exception is reported in the action's descriptor. It would be nice to >also have a stack trace, so I was wondering if that would be possible to >include. Without it we can use the Hadoop JobTracker URL to look >through the logs by hand to find the exception, but reporting the full >exception in the Oozie status would speed up diagnosis.
