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Ranger policy sync doesn't work in some cases

shishir_saxena4 — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 23:19:43 GMT

If I add a new policy in Ranger for HDFS, sometimes it doesn't sync. Other times it will sync properly. If I delete my new policy, sync starts working again.

I am checking timestamps on policies in policy sync directory.

Re: Ranger policy sync doesn't work in some cases

aervits — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 23:47:22 GMT

@Shishir Saxena please post the policy xml and any logs you can provide.

Re: Ranger policy sync doesn't work in some cases

shishir_saxena4 — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:18:35 GMT

Thank You @Artem Ervits for pointing me in right direction. While looking at policy json file, I noticed that it had a null in path for my new policy. It looks like somehow a null was being added to policy file due to some keystroke combination. Once I delete this policy, policy sync starts working correctly.

In policycache directory, hdfs_<policy>.json file had following line for my new policy.

"resources": { "path": { "values": [ null