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[jira] [Updated] (HADOOP-10987) Provide an iterator-based listing API for FileSystem

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10987?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Kihwal Lee updated HADOOP-10987:
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    Target Version/s: 2.7.0

> Provide an iterator-based listing API for FileSystem
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>                 Key: HADOOP-10987
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10987
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Kihwal Lee
>            Assignee: Kihwal Lee
>         Attachments: HADOOP-10987.patch, HADOOP-10987.v2.patch, HADOOP-10987.v3.patch
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> Iterator based listing methods already exist in {{FileContext}} for both simple listing and listing with locations. However, {{FileSystem}} lacks the former.  From what I understand, it wasn't added to {{FileSystem}} because it was believed to be phased out soon. Since {{FileSystem}} is very well alive today and new features are getting added frequently, I propose adding an iterator based {{listStatus}} method. As for the name of the new method, we can use the same name used in {{FileContext}} : {{listStatusIterator()}}.
> It will be particularly useful when listing giant directories. Without this, the client has to build up a huge data structure and hold it in memory. We've seen client JVMs running out of memory because of this.
> Once this change is made, we can modify FsShell, etc. in followup jiras.



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