[jira] [Updated] (MAPREDUCE-6455) Unable to use surefire > 2.18

["Karthik Kambatla (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Karthik Kambatla updated MAPREDUCE-6455:
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    Assignee: Charlie Helin

> Unable to use surefire > 2.18
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-6455
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-6455
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.7.1
>            Reporter: Charlie Helin
>            Assignee: Charlie Helin
>
> There are some compelling features in later version of surefire which lets one exclude/include tests based the content of a file, re-running of test case etc.
> However introduced in Surefire 2.18 is also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-649. Which changed the convention of null properties to empty string values (""). This only applies to forked tests such as the MapReduce tests and cause a couple of them to fail because of functionality that is directly or indirectly dependent on the value being null. One such example is Configuration.substituteVars() and TaskLog.getBaseLogDir().
> substituteVars() shows the issue when the getProperty returns empty String, skipping the getRaw(var) expression. One way to work around this could be
> {code} 
>    if (val == null || val.isEmpty()) {
>         String raw = getRaw(var);
>         if (raw != null) {
>           // raw contains a value, otherwise default to whatever System.getProperty returned
>           // since it could be an empty string
>           val = raw;
>         }
>       }
> {code}
> getBaseLogDir, similarly when returns an empty string the schematics of java.io.File differs dependent on whether parent is null or "". A null value is interpreted as new File(file); whereas "" will be interpreted as new File(defaultParent /* / */, file);
> This could simply be addressed with 
> {code}
>   static String getBaseLogDir() {
>     String logDir = System.getProperty("hadoop.log.dir");
>     // there is a difference how null and "" is treated as a parent
>     // directory when creating a file
>     return logDir == null || logDir.isEmpty() ? null : logDir;
>   }
> {code}



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