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[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-7036) spellcheck for configuration
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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-7036:
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Errr, don't we just need a schema definition and we can do this with any number of xml tools?
> spellcheck for configuration
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> Key: HADOOP-7036
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7036
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: conf
> Reporter: Ari Rabkin
> Assignee: Ari Rabkin
> Attachments: confspellcheck.jar, hadoopSpellcheck.patch
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> Hadoop does fairly limited correctness checks of its configuration. I propose a "configuration spellcheck" that can automatically catch errors, and particularly can catch cases where users mis-type the name of an option.
> The system works as follows:
> - Use program analysis to extract the set of options supported by each Hadoop version, annotated when possible with their types into a 'dictionary file'.
> - Distribute these extracted sets, per version.
> - A script that reads a dictionary file, reads the Hadoop config from a specified directory, and reports deviations. In particular, the system can report when an option is set that Hadoop will never read or when an invalid value is specified.
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