[jira] [Reopened] (HDFS-2316) webhdfs: a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP

["Alejandro Abdelnur (Reopened) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Alejandro Abdelnur reopened HDFS-2316:
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we are using an enum {FILE, DIRECTORY, SYMLINK} for the FileStatus, but the constructor of FileStatus, for symlinks, takes a isDir boolean. 

This means we are losing the isFile/isDir information in the case of symlinks but it seems that the HDFS implementation keeps that.

If this is the case, we should add that info either as a new enum set or instead using enum using 2 booleans.
                
> webhdfs: a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP
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>                 Key: HDFS-2316
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2316
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>            Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>         Attachments: WebHdfsAPI20111020.pdf, WebHdfsAPI20111103.pdf, WebHdfsAPI20111111.pdf, test-webhdfs, test-webhdfs-0.20s
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> We current have hftp for accessing HDFS over HTTP.  However, hftp is a read-only FileSystem and does not provide "write" accesses.
> In HDFS-2284, we propose to have webhdfs for providing a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP.  The is the umbrella JIRA for the tasks.

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