From bbdbb8983859a8fdd17d7abba54701c575edf515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jared Noble <jsnoble1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:52:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] better error parsing for open

---
 src/webhdfs.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/webhdfs.js b/src/webhdfs.js
index f2e7502..94185bb 100644
--- a/src/webhdfs.js
+++ b/src/webhdfs.js
@@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ WebHDFSClient.prototype.open = function (path, hdfsoptions, requestoptions, call
 
     // format request args
     var args = _.defaults({
+        json: true,
         uri: this.base_url + path,
         qs: _.defaults({
             op: 'open'
@@ -330,7 +331,10 @@ WebHDFSClient.prototype.open = function (path, hdfsoptions, requestoptions, call
         
         // forward request error
         if (error) return callback(error);
-        
+
+        if (typeof body === 'object' && 'RemoteException' in body){
+            return callback(new RemoteException(body));
+        }
         // execute callback
         return callback(null, body);