Hadoop Oozie Workflow not getting Coordinator properties

Question

I have a simple Oozie coordinator and workflow. I'm trying to pass the coordinator's dataIn property to the workflow as described here: https://oozie.apache.org/docs/3.2.0-incubating/CoordinatorFunctionalSpec.html#a6.7.1._coord:dataInString_name_EL_Function

For some reason, the value is empty in the workflow's properties and EL variable is empty ${inputDir} in the following example.

The actual error is: variable [inputDir] cannot be resolved

Config

coordinator.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<coordinator-app xmlns="uri:oozie:coordinator:0.4" name="awesome" frequency="${coord:days(1)}" start="2014-10-06T00:01Z" end="2050-01-01T00:01Z" timezone="UTC">
  <controls>
    <!-- Wait 23 hours before giving up -->
    <timeout>1380</timeout>
    <concurrency>1</concurrency>
    <execution>LIFO</execution>
  </controls>
  <datasets>
    <dataset name="itsready" frequency="${coord:days(1)}" initial-instance="2014-10-06T08:00Z" timezone="America/Los_Angeles">
      <uri-template>${s3DataPath}/${YEAR}-${MONTH}-${DAY}</uri-template>
      <!-- with the done-flag set to none, this will look for the folder's existance -->
      <done-flag></done-flag>
    </dataset>
    <!-- output dataset -->
    <dataset name="itsdone" frequency="${coord:days(1)}" initial-instance="2014-10-06T08:00Z" timezone="America/Los_Angeles">
      <uri-template>${dataPath}/awesome/sql-schema-tab-delim-load/${YEAR}-${MONTH}-${DAY}/loaded</uri-template>
    </dataset>
  </datasets>
  <input-events>
    <data-in name="input" dataset="itsready">
      <instance>${coord:current(0)}</instance>
    </data-in>
  </input-events>
  <output-events>
    <data-out name="output" dataset="itsdone">
      <instance>${coord:current(0)}</instance>
    </data-out>
  </output-events>
  <action>
    <workflow>
      <app-path>${workflowApplicationPath}</app-path>
      <configuration>
        <property>
          <name>inputDir</name>
          <value>${coord:dataIn('input')}</value>
        </property>
      </configuration>
    </workflow>
  </action>
</coordinator-app>

workflow.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<workflow-app xmlns="uri:oozie:workflow:0.4" name="awesome-wf">
  <start to="shell-import"/>
  <action name="shell-import">
    <shell xmlns="uri:oozie:shell-action:0.2">
      <job-tracker>${jobTracker}</job-tracker>
      <name-node>${nameNode}</name-node>
      <exec>${importFile}</exec>
      <env-var>INPUT_DIR=${inputDir}</env-var>
      <file>${importFile}#${importFile}</file>
    </shell>
    <ok to="end"/>
    <error to="fail"/>
  </action>
  <kill name="fail">
    <message>it failed, error message[${wf:errorMessage(wf:lastErrorNode())}]</message>
  </kill>
  <end name="end"/>
</workflow-app>

job.properties

hadoopMaster=myawesome.server.com
nameNode=hdfs://${hadoopMaster}:8020
jobTracker=${hadoopMaster}:8050
tzOffset=-8
oozie.use.system.libpath=true
oozie.libpath=/user/oozie/share/lib
appPath=${nameNode}/apps
dataPath=${appPath}/data
s3DataPath=s3n://an/awesome/s3/data/path

oozie.wf.action.notification.url=https://zapier.com/mysecreturl
workflowApplicationPath=${appPath}/awesome

#uncomment both of these lines to test the workflow
#inputDir=s3://awesome/path/2014-10-06
#oozie.wf.application.path=${workflowApplicationPath}

oozie.coord.application.path=${workflowApplicationPath}


importFile=import.sh

Here's the gist: https://gist.github.com/nathantsoi/dc8caac7109a57c99399#file-awesome-oozie-config-md

Nathan Nathan · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-05T20:39:54

Finally had a chance to revisit this. It's working now, but could be for a variety of reasons. For posterity, here's what I changed:

removed the empty done flag
used dataOut instead of dataIn
added another dataOut events, giving each a unique name

It would take some debugging to pin down the exact cause.