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[jira] Assigned: (HADOOP-4340) "hadoop jar" always returns exit
code 0 (success) to the shell when jar throws a fatal exception
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4340?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Arun C Murthy reassigned HADOOP-4340:
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Assignee: Arun C Murthy (was: Amareshwari Sriramadasu)
> "hadoop jar" always returns exit code 0 (success) to the shell when jar throws a fatal exception
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-4340
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4340
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: examples, mapred
> Affects Versions: 0.18.1, 0.19.0, 0.20.0
> Environment: Ubuntu 8.04 Server, 7 Hadoop nodes, GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
> Reporter: David Litster
> Assignee: Arun C Murthy
> Fix For: 0.18.2, 0.19.0
>
> Attachments: HADOOP-4340_2_20081029.patch, patch-4340-1.txt, patch-4340.txt
>
>
> Running "hadoop jar" always returns 0 (success) when the jar dies with a stack trace. As an example, run these commands:
> /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop jar /usr/local/hadoop/hadoop-0.18.1-examples.jar pi 10 10 2>&1; echo $?
> exits with 0
> /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop jar /usr/local/hadoop/hadoop-0.18.1-examples.jar pi 2>&1; echo $?
> exits with 255
> /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop jar /usr/local/hadoop/hadoop-0.18.1-examples.jar 2>&1; echo $?
> exits with 0
> This seems to be expected behavior. However, running:
> /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop jar /usr/local/hadoop/hadoop-0.18.1-examples.jar pi 10 badparam 2>&1; echo $?
> java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "badparam"
> at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
> at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:403)
> at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:461)
> at org.apache.hadoop.examples.PiEstimator.run(PiEstimator.java:241)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
> at org.apache.hadoop.examples.PiEstimator.main(PiEstimator.java:252)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
> at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver$ProgramDescription.invoke(ProgramDriver.java:68)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.driver(ProgramDriver.java:139)
> at org.apache.hadoop.examples.ExampleDriver.main(ExampleDriver.java:53)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
> at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:155)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:54)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:68)
> exits with 0.
> In my opinion, if a jar throws an exception that kills the program being run, and the developer doesn't catch the exception and do a sane exit with a exit code, hadoop should at least exit with a non-zero exit code.
> As another example, while running a main class that exits with an exit code of 201, Hadoop will preserve the correct exit code:
> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
> System.exit(201);
> }
> But when deliberately creating a null pointer exception, Hadoop exits with 0.
> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
> Object o = null;
> o.toString();
> System.exit(201);
> }
> This behaviour makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to use Hadoop programatically with tools such as HOD or non-Java data processing frameworks, since if a jar crashes with an unhandled exception, Hadoop doesn't inform the calling program in a well-bahaved way (polling stderr for output is not a very good way to detect application failure).
> I'm not a Java programmer, so I don't know what the best code to signal failure would be.
> Please let me know what other information I can include about my setup
> Thanks.
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