Thanks Larry. Might be thinking deja vu as well since this was opened as a
Teradata/Hortonworks support ticket as well (if it got back to you that
way). I'll follow KNOX-949 and see what I can do to help.

Kevin Risden

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 1:38 PM, larry mccay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Kevin -
>
> I thought that I responded to this thread but I don't see it here and
> would really like to try and get to a resolution for the 0.13.0 release.
> Since we are trying to close that down at the moment, this needs to be
> dealt with with some urgency.
>
> Actually, I just found another thread and JIRA filed for this
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-949 - must have been thinking
> about my response there.
>
> I don't quite remember why KNOX-690 was added though.
> Maybe someone else has some additional details.
>
> Let's work on this issue on KNOX-949 with the first priority being
> determining whether this needs to block 0.13.0 release.
>
> thanks,
>
> --larry
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Kevin Risden <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I know the last email was long so wanted to boil down the question:
>>
>> Does the change from KNOX-690 make sense since it changes the URL
>> meaning? Maybe there is a way to do template matching without modifying the
>> URL that gets passed to the backend?
>>
>> Kevin Risden
>>
>> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Kevin Risden <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry for the long email but hopefully it provides enough detail to
>>> understand the problem and if there is anything we can do to work around it
>>> differently.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Problem*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With Knox 0.6.x (HDP 2.3), the Knox WebHBase call returns results
>>> correctly. With Knox 0.9.x (HDP 2.5), the Knox WebHBase call returns a 404
>>> not found. If we hit WebHBase directly then there is no issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> An example call:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> curl -i -k -u USER 'https://HOST:8443/gateway/TOP
>>> OLOGY/hbase/ns:table/%2frkpart1%2frkpart2'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Analysis*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Looked closer at gateway-audit and noticed the dispatch urls were being
>>> encoded differently between the two versions.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Works – Knox 0.6.x (HDP 2.3)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 17/05/23 16:54:13 ||7c4131fc-8638-4a1a-9228-d9a6
>>> 7a312a40|audit|WEBHBASE|USER|||dispatch|uri|http://HOST:8084
>>> /ns:table/%2frkpart1%2frkpart2?doAs=USER|success|Response
>>> <http://HOST:8084/ns:table/%2frkpart1%2frkpart2?doAs=USER%7Csuccess%7CResponse>
>>> status: 200
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Doesn’t work – Knox 0.9.x (HDP 2.5)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 17/05/23 17:23:13 ||4244f242-6694-40bb-914d-8dc7
>>> e222f074|audit|WEBHBASE|USER|||dispatch|uri|http://HOST:8084
>>> /ns%3Atable/rkpart1/rkpart2?doAs=USER|success|Response
>>> <http://HOST:8084/ns%3Atable/rkpart1/rkpart2?doAs=USER%7Csuccess%7CResponse>
>>> status: 404
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The 404 is coming from WebHBase directly not being able to find the
>>> split row key with the extra slash. The difference is that the %2f which is
>>> a / is being decoded and then removed instead of being left as a %2f in the
>>> URL. This changes the meaning of the url and causes issues for WebHBase on
>>> the backend.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At first the culprit seemed like https://issues.apache.org/jira
>>> /browse/KNOX-709, but this wasn’t the case. Looks like KNOX-709 may
>>> have been caused by KNOX-690.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I pulled down a few Knox versions 0.8.0 and 0.9.0 and found that it did
>>> not affect 0.8.0. I pulled down the code from
>>> https://github.com/hortonworks/knox-release/tree/HDP-2.5.3.77-tag and
>>> did a git bisect to find the offending commit using this test case:
>>> https://gist.github.com/risdenk/afecc66d6fc0c9d665abd1ae5466f341. The
>>> commit is https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=knox.git;h=c28224c
>>> and related JIRA is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-690.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Resolution*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I rebuilt Knox from https://github.com/hortonworks
>>> /knox-release/tree/HDP-2.5.3.77-tag with the commit c28224c for that
>>> reverted. The adjusted code is here: https://github.com/risdenk/kno
>>> x-release/tree/hdp25_revert_KNOX-690. The change is only a single
>>> commit https://github.com/risdenk/knox-release/commit/dc452126de99f
>>> 6f1d15938f7294e95e3b7c89328
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I rebuilt Knox with mvn -DskipTests package and copied the two affected
>>> jars (gateway-provider-rewrite and gateway-util-urltemplate) to
>>> /usr/hdp/current/knox-server/lib/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I moved the two old jars to /root. The affected jars were
>>>
>>> ·         gateway-provider-rewrite-0.9.0.2.5.3.0-37.jar
>>>
>>> ·         gateway-util-urltemplate-0.9.0.2.5.3.0-37.jar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I then restarted Knox on hdpr05en02. This made the following curl call
>>> work:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> curl -i -k -u USER 'https://KNOXHOST:8443/gateway
>>> /TOPOLOGY/hbase/ns:table/%2frkpart1%2frkpart2'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Conclusion*
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not convinced that KNOX-690 is a good idea but it basically made it
>>> so url encoded paths were checked by the templates/parser. URL encoding
>>> should be left alone in many cases. Reverting the change from KNOX-690
>>> shouldn't affect us much more other than upgrades to HDP could break this.
>>> I think we should really avoid using url encodable characters in the rowkey
>>> especially for webhbase. / is a bad character to try to pass through
>>> webservices. Since having the customer change rowkey design will be
>>> painful, we will be using a workaround in the short term.
>>>
>>> Kevin Risden
>>>
>>
>>
>

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