javaazureazure-data-lake-gen2

Unable to delete a folder recursively in Azure Data Lake


I wish to delete a folder in Azure Data Lake. The folder contains sub-folders and files. This is what I have tried:

DataLakeServiceClient dataLakeServiceClient = new DataLakeServiceClientBuilder()
        .endpoint("https://aiops3e1fb6dcf0fef5.dfs.core.windows.net")
        .credential(new DefaultAzureCredentialBuilder().build())
        .buildClient();
delete(dataLakeServiceClient);
DataLakeFileSystemClient core = dataLakeServiceClient.getFileSystemClient("core");

String toDelete = "2022/01/25/09/30/";
System.out.println(core.getFileClient(toDelete).exists()); // prints true

DataLakeDirectoryClient directoryClient = core.getDirectoryClient(toDelete);
directoryClient.deleteWithResponse(true, null, null, Context.NONE);

It gave me the following error:

Exception in thread "main" com.azure.storage.file.datalake.models.DataLakeStorageException: Status code 400, "{"error":{"code":"InvalidUri","message":"The request URI is invalid.\nRequestId:9dcb8894-d01f-0026-5b93-19b89e000000\nTime:2022-02-04T06:53:17.1733402Z"}}" at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at com.azure.core.http.rest.RestProxy.instantiateUnexpectedException(RestProxy.java:389) at com.azure.core.http.rest.RestProxy.lambda$ensureExpectedStatus$7(RestProxy.java:444) at reactor.core.publisher.MonoFlatMap$FlatMapMain.onNext(MonoFlatMap.java:125) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxSwitchIfEmpty$SwitchIfEmptySubscriber.onNext(FluxSwitchIfEmpty.java:74) at reactor.core.publisher.Operators$MonoSubscriber.complete(Operators.java:1816) at reactor.core.publisher.MonoCacheTime$CoordinatorSubscriber.signalCached(MonoCacheTime.java:337) at reactor.core.publisher.MonoCacheTime$CoordinatorSubscriber.onNext(MonoCacheTime.java:354) at reactor.core.publisher.Operators$ScalarSubscription.request(Operators.java:2398) at reactor.core.publisher.MonoCacheTime$CoordinatorSubscriber.onSubscribe(MonoCacheTime.java:293) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxFlatMap.trySubscribeScalarMap(FluxFlatMap.java:192) at reactor.core.publisher.MonoFlatMap.subscribeOrReturn(MonoFlatMap.java:53) at reactor.core.publisher.InternalMonoOperator.subscribe(InternalMonoOperator.java:57) at reactor.core.publisher.MonoDefer.subscribe(MonoDefer.java:52) at reactor.core.publisher.MonoCacheTime.subscribeOrReturn(MonoCacheTime.java:143) at reactor.core.publisher.InternalMonoOperator.subscribe(InternalMonoOperator.java:57) at reactor.core.publisher.MonoFlatMap$FlatMapMain.onNext(MonoFlatMap.java:157) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxSwitchIfEmpty$SwitchIfEmptySubscriber.onNext(FluxSwitchIfEmpty.java:74) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxDoFinally$DoFinallySubscriber.onNext(FluxDoFinally.java:130) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxHandle$HandleSubscriber.onNext(FluxHandle.java:119) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxMap$MapConditionalSubscriber.onNext(FluxMap.java:220) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxDoFinally$DoFinallySubscriber.onNext(FluxDoFinally.java:130) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxHandleFuseable$HandleFuseableSubscriber.onNext(FluxHandleFuseable.java:184) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxContextWrite$ContextWriteSubscriber.onNext(FluxContextWrite.java:107) at reactor.core.publisher.Operators$MonoSubscriber.complete(Operators.java:1816) at reactor.core.publisher.MonoCollectList$MonoCollectListSubscriber.onComplete(MonoCollectList.java:128) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxPeek$PeekSubscriber.onComplete(FluxPeek.java:260) at reactor.core.publisher.FluxMap$MapSubscriber.onComplete(FluxMap.java:142) at reactor.netty.channel.FluxReceive.onInboundComplete(FluxReceive.java:400) at reactor.netty.channel.ChannelOperations.onInboundComplete(ChannelOperations.java:419) at reactor.netty.channel.ChannelOperations.terminate(ChannelOperations.java:473) at reactor.netty.http.client.HttpClientOperations.onInboundNext(HttpClientOperations.java:702) at reactor.netty.channel.ChannelOperationsHandler.channelRead(ChannelOperationsHandler.java:93) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:379) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:365) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:357) at io.netty.channel.CombinedChannelDuplexHandler$DelegatingChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(CombinedChannelDuplexHandler.java:436) at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.fireChannelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:324) at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:296) at io.netty.channel.CombinedChannelDuplexHandler.channelRead(CombinedChannelDuplexHandler.java:251) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:379) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:365) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:357) at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.unwrap(SslHandler.java:1371) at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decodeNonJdkCompatible(SslHandler.java:1245) at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decode(SslHandler.java:1285) at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:507) at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:446) at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:276) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:379) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:365) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:357) at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1410) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:379) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:365) at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:919) at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:166) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:722) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:658) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:584) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:496) at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:986) at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Suppressed: java.lang.Exception: #block terminated with an error at reactor.core.publisher.BlockingSingleSubscriber.blockingGet(BlockingSingleSubscriber.java:99) at reactor.core.publisher.Mono.block(Mono.java:1707) at com.azure.storage.common.implementation.StorageImplUtils.blockWithOptionalTimeout(StorageImplUtils.java:128) at com.azure.storage.file.datalake.DataLakeDirectoryClient.deleteWithResponse(DataLakeDirectoryClient.java:142) at azure.DataLakePrac.delete(DataLakePrac.java:49) at azure.DataLakePrac.main(DataLakePrac.java:25)


Solution

  • Removing the trailing / fixed the issue:

    String toDelete = "2022/01/25/09/30";
    

    Now it was able to delete the folder (recursively)

    Note: It also failed if the path was /2022/01/25/09/30 (forward slash at start).