[jira] [Assigned] (HDFS-13511) Provide specialized exception when block length cannot be obtained

["Gabor Bota (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-13511?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Gabor Bota reassigned HDFS-13511:
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    Assignee: Gabor Bota

> Provide specialized exception when block length cannot be obtained
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-13511
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-13511
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Ted Yu
>            Assignee: Gabor Bota
>            Priority: Major
>
> In downstream project, I saw the following code:
> {code}
>         FSDataInputStream inputStream = hdfs.open(new Path(path));
> ...
>         if (options.getRecoverFailedOpen() && dfs != null && e.getMessage().toLowerCase()
>             .startsWith("cannot obtain block length for")) {
> {code}
> The above tightly depends on the following in DFSInputStream#readBlockLength
> {code}
>     throw new IOException("Cannot obtain block length for " + locatedblock);
> {code}
> The check based on string matching is brittle in production deployment.
> After discussing with [~stevel@apache.org], better approach is to introduce specialized IOException, e.g. CannotObtainBlockLengthException so that downstream project doesn't have to rely on string matching.



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