webhdfs setreplication api should return a 400 when called on a directory -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-2432 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2432 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Arpit Gupta Currently the set replication api on a directory leads to a 200. Request URI http://NN:50070/webhdfs/tmp/webhdfs_data/dir_replication_tests?op=SETREPLICATION&replication=5 Request Method: PUT Status Line: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Response Content: {"boolean":false} Since we can determine that this call did not succeed (boolean=false) we should rather just return a 400 (Bad Request) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira