# Documenting location of Distributions sourced from Hadoop (HDFS)

**URL:** <https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/t/documenting-location-of-distributions-sourced-from-hadoop-hdfs/157>\
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**Created:** [September 7, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/t/documenting-location-of-distributions-sourced-from-hadoop-hdfs/157 "2021-09-07T06:05:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.aristotlemetadata.com/michael/32/188_2.png) [@Michael](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/u/Michael)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/t/documenting-location-of-distributions-sourced-from-hadoop-hdfs/157/1 "2021-09-07T06:05:36Z")

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I have an API distribution loader working with Aristotle, and I’m extracting table data from Cloudera Atlas (which offers some insight to metadata concerning a Hadoop file system). One of the fields I want to copy over is the table’s location, which in Atlas might look something like this:

“location”: “hdfs://hdfs-box/path/morepath/rrr\_priv/data/country\_table”

In Aristotle, I thought a good spot for this might be the Distribution field “Access URL”, yet this seems to prefer a regular internet path instead of something that makes sense for a Hadoop file system.

Here’s the error if you try a regular edit screen:

![Access URL Aristotle error](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/aristotle/original/1X/73dbcabcf00f17c14208e9c05807631b0b1be628.png)

Is there another field this location data would be better placed in?  
Or should “Access URL” be updated to allow for locations unique to hadoop?

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**Author:** ![silke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@silke](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/u/silke)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 6:26am UTC](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/t/documenting-location-of-distributions-sourced-from-hadoop-hdfs/157/2 "2021-09-07T06:26:27Z")

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Hi Michael,

I’ve looked into this - the URL fields we use were using an overly strict validator (basically rejecting anything that wasn’t http/https). We’ve fixed this now, and it’ll be in the release next Tuesday (14/09/2021).

Thanks as always,  
Dylan

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**Author:** ![silke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@silke](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/u/silke)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.aristotlemetadata.com/t/documenting-location-of-distributions-sourced-from-hadoop-hdfs/157/3 "2021-09-19T23:54:13Z")

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Hi Michael,

Just letting you know that we have released this fix last Tuesday. I hope that lets you continue with your API distribution loader. As always, let us know if you have any other queries - Aristotle is always happy to help.