diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index df9b7420c4..c88368e114 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -780,6 +780,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-8887. Expose storage type and storage ID in BlockLocation. (wang)
 
+    HDFS-8622. Implement GETCONTENTSUMMARY operation for WebImageViewer.
+    (Jagadesh Kiran N via aajisaka)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-8026. Trace FSOutputSummer#writeChecksumChunks rather than
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/FSImageHandler.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/FSImageHandler.java
index da02805a6d..d1b61d1d26 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/FSImageHandler.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/FSImageHandler.java
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ public void channelRead0(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, HttpRequest request)
     case "LISTXATTRS":
       content = image.listXAttrs(path);
       break;
+    case "GETCONTENTSUMMARY":
+      content = image.getContentSummary(path);
+      break;
     default:
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid value for webhdfs parameter"
           + " \"op\"");
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/FSImageLoader.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/FSImageLoader.java
index 2a1173447d..4d8eb35566 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/FSImageLoader.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/FSImageLoader.java
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImageFormatProtobuf;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImageUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FsImageProto;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FsImageProto.INodeSection.INode;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.INodeId;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.JsonUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.resources.XAttrEncodingParam;
@@ -310,6 +311,95 @@ private List<Map<String, Object>> getFileStatusList(String path)
     return list;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Return the JSON formatted ContentSummary of the specified path.
+   * @param path a path specifies a file or directory
+   * @return JSON formatted ContentSummary
+   * @throws IOException if failed to serialize ContentSummary to JSON.
+   */
+  String getContentSummary(String path) throws IOException {
+    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+    return "{\"ContentSummary\":\n"
+        + mapper.writeValueAsString(getContentSummaryMap(path)) + "\n}\n";
+  }
+
+  private Map<String, Object> getContentSummaryMap(String path)
+      throws IOException {
+    long id = lookup(path);
+    INode inode = fromINodeId(id);
+    long spaceQuota = 0;
+    long nsQuota = 0;
+    long[] data = new long[4];
+    FsImageProto.INodeSection.INodeFile f = inode.getFile();
+    switch (inode.getType()) {
+    case FILE:
+      data[0] = 0;
+      data[1] = 1;
+      data[2] = getFileSize(f);
+      nsQuota = -1;
+      data[3] = data[2] * f.getReplication();
+      spaceQuota = -1;
+      return fillSummaryMap(spaceQuota, nsQuota, data);
+    case DIRECTORY:
+      fillDirSummary(id, data);
+      nsQuota = inode.getDirectory().getNsQuota();
+      spaceQuota = inode.getDirectory().getDsQuota();
+      return fillSummaryMap(spaceQuota, nsQuota, data);
+    case SYMLINK:
+      data[0] = 0;
+      data[1] = 1;
+      data[2] = 0;
+      nsQuota = -1;
+      data[3] = 0;
+      spaceQuota = -1;
+      return fillSummaryMap(spaceQuota, nsQuota, data);
+    default:
+      return null;
+    }
+
+  }
+
+  private Map<String, Object> fillSummaryMap(long spaceQuota,
+      long nsQuota, long[] data) {
+    Map<String, Object> map = Maps.newHashMap();
+    map.put("directoryCount", data[0]);
+    map.put("fileCount", data[1]);
+    map.put("length", data[2]);
+    map.put("quota", nsQuota);
+    map.put("spaceConsumed", data[3]);
+    map.put("spaceQuota", spaceQuota);
+    return map;
+  }
+
+  private void fillDirSummary(long id, long[] data) throws IOException {
+    data[0]++;
+    long[] children = dirmap.get(id);
+    if (children == null) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    for (long cid : children) {
+      INode node = fromINodeId(cid);
+      switch (node.getType()) {
+      case DIRECTORY:
+        fillDirSummary(cid, data);
+        break;
+      case FILE:
+        FsImageProto.INodeSection.INodeFile f = node.getFile();
+        long curLength = getFileSize(f);
+        data[1]++;
+        data[2] += curLength;
+        data[3] += (curLength) * (f.getReplication());
+        break;
+      case SYMLINK:
+        data[1]++;
+        break;
+      default:
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Return the JSON formatted XAttrNames of the specified file.
    *
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HdfsImageViewer.md b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HdfsImageViewer.md
index 9b9d80a9b2..155d3f9b11 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HdfsImageViewer.md
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HdfsImageViewer.md
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ The Web processor now supports the following operations:
 * [GETACLSTATUS](./WebHDFS.html#Get_ACL_Status)
 * [GETXATTRS](./WebHDFS.html#Get_an_XAttr)
 * [LISTXATTRS](./WebHDFS.html#List_all_XAttrs)
+* [CONTENTSUMMARY] (./WebHDFS.html#Get_Content_Summary_of_a_Directory)
 
 ### XML Processor
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/TestOfflineImageViewerForContentSummary.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/TestOfflineImageViewerForContentSummary.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b758c26726
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/TestOfflineImageViewerForContentSummary.java
@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.offlineImageViewer;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URL;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.ContentSummary;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.HdfsConstants;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImageTestUtil;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.WebHdfsFileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils;
+import org.junit.AfterClass;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Tests GETCONTENTSUMMARY operation for WebImageViewer
+ */
+public class TestOfflineImageViewerForContentSummary {
+
+  private static final Log LOG = LogFactory
+      .getLog(TestOfflineImageViewerForContentSummary.class);
+
+  private static File originalFsimage = null;
+  private static ContentSummary summaryFromDFS = null;
+  private static ContentSummary emptyDirSummaryFromDFS = null;
+  private static ContentSummary fileSummaryFromDFS = null;
+  private static ContentSummary symLinkSummaryFromDFS = null;
+  private static ContentSummary symLinkSummaryForDirContainsFromDFS=null;
+  /**
+   * Create a populated namespace for later testing. Save its contents to a
+   * data structure and store its fsimage location. We only want to generate
+   * the fsimage file once and use it for multiple tests.
+   */
+  @BeforeClass
+  public static void createOriginalFSImage() throws IOException {
+    MiniDFSCluster cluster = null;
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+
+    try {
+      cluster = new MiniDFSCluster.Builder(conf).build();
+      cluster.waitActive();
+      DistributedFileSystem hdfs = cluster.getFileSystem();
+      Path parentDir = new Path("/parentDir");
+      Path childDir1 = new Path(parentDir, "childDir1");
+      Path childDir2 = new Path(parentDir, "childDir2");
+      Path dirForLinks = new Path("/dirForLinks");
+      hdfs.mkdirs(parentDir);
+      hdfs.mkdirs(childDir1);
+      hdfs.mkdirs(childDir2);
+      hdfs.mkdirs(dirForLinks);
+      hdfs.setQuota(parentDir, 10, 1024*1024*1024);
+
+      Path file1OnParentDir = new Path(parentDir, "file1");
+      try (FSDataOutputStream o = hdfs.create(file1OnParentDir)) {
+        o.write("123".getBytes());
+      }
+      try (FSDataOutputStream o = hdfs.create(new Path(parentDir, "file2"))) {
+        o.write("1234".getBytes());
+      }
+      try (FSDataOutputStream o = hdfs.create(new Path(childDir1, "file3"))) {
+        o.write("123".getBytes());
+      }
+      try (FSDataOutputStream o = hdfs.create(new Path(parentDir, "file4"))) {
+        o.write("123".getBytes());
+      }
+      Path link1 = new Path("/link1");
+      Path link2 = new Path("/dirForLinks/linkfordir1");
+      hdfs.createSymlink(new Path("/parentDir/file4"), link1, true);
+      summaryFromDFS = hdfs.getContentSummary(parentDir);
+      emptyDirSummaryFromDFS = hdfs.getContentSummary(childDir2);
+      fileSummaryFromDFS = hdfs.getContentSummary(file1OnParentDir);
+      symLinkSummaryFromDFS = hdfs.getContentSummary(link1);
+      hdfs.createSymlink(childDir1, link2, true);
+      symLinkSummaryForDirContainsFromDFS = hdfs.getContentSummary(new Path(
+          "/dirForLinks"));
+      // Write results to the fsimage file
+      hdfs.setSafeMode(HdfsConstants.SafeModeAction.SAFEMODE_ENTER, false);
+      hdfs.saveNamespace();
+      // Determine the location of the fsimage file
+      originalFsimage = FSImageTestUtil.findLatestImageFile(FSImageTestUtil
+          .getFSImage(cluster.getNameNode()).getStorage().getStorageDir(0));
+      if (originalFsimage == null) {
+        throw new RuntimeException("Didn't generate or can't find fsimage");
+      }
+      LOG.debug("original FS image file is " + originalFsimage);
+    } finally {
+      if (cluster != null)
+        cluster.shutdown();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @AfterClass
+  public static void deleteOriginalFSImage() {
+    if (originalFsimage != null && originalFsimage.exists()) {
+      originalFsimage.delete();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testGetContentSummaryForEmptyDirectory() throws Exception {
+    try (WebImageViewer viewer = new WebImageViewer(
+        NetUtils.createSocketAddr("localhost:0"))) {
+      viewer.initServer(originalFsimage.getAbsolutePath());
+      int port = viewer.getPort();
+      URL url = new URL("http://localhost:" + port
+          + "/webhdfs/v1/parentDir/childDir2?op=GETCONTENTSUMMARY");
+      HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+      connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
+      connection.connect();
+      assertEquals(HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK, connection.getResponseCode());
+      // create a WebHdfsFileSystem instance
+      URI uri = new URI("webhdfs://localhost:" + String.valueOf(port));
+      Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+      WebHdfsFileSystem webfs = (WebHdfsFileSystem) FileSystem.get(uri, conf);
+      ContentSummary summary = webfs.getContentSummary(new Path(
+          "/parentDir/childDir2"));
+      verifyContentSummary(emptyDirSummaryFromDFS, summary);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testGetContentSummaryForDirectory() throws Exception {
+    try (WebImageViewer viewer = new WebImageViewer(
+        NetUtils.createSocketAddr("localhost:0"))) {
+      viewer.initServer(originalFsimage.getAbsolutePath());
+      int port = viewer.getPort();
+      URL url = new URL("http://localhost:" + port
+          + "/webhdfs/v1/parentDir/?op=GETCONTENTSUMMARY");
+      HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+      connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
+      connection.connect();
+      assertEquals(HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK, connection.getResponseCode());
+      // create a WebHdfsFileSystem instance
+      URI uri = new URI("webhdfs://localhost:" + String.valueOf(port));
+      Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+      WebHdfsFileSystem webfs = (WebHdfsFileSystem) FileSystem.get(uri, conf);
+      ContentSummary summary = webfs.getContentSummary(new Path("/parentDir/"));
+      verifyContentSummary(summaryFromDFS, summary);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testGetContentSummaryForFile() throws Exception {
+    try (WebImageViewer viewer = new WebImageViewer(
+        NetUtils.createSocketAddr("localhost:0"))) {
+      viewer.initServer(originalFsimage.getAbsolutePath());
+      int port = viewer.getPort();
+      URL url = new URL("http://localhost:" + port
+          + "/webhdfs/v1/parentDir/file1?op=GETCONTENTSUMMARY");
+      HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+      connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
+      connection.connect();
+      assertEquals(HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK, connection.getResponseCode());
+      // create a WebHdfsFileSystem instance
+      URI uri = new URI("webhdfs://localhost:" + String.valueOf(port));
+      Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+      WebHdfsFileSystem webfs = (WebHdfsFileSystem) FileSystem.get(uri, conf);
+      ContentSummary summary = webfs.
+          getContentSummary(new Path("/parentDir/file1"));
+      verifyContentSummary(fileSummaryFromDFS, summary);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testGetContentSummaryForSymlink() throws Exception {
+    try (WebImageViewer viewer = new WebImageViewer(
+        NetUtils.createSocketAddr("localhost:0"))) {
+      viewer.initServer(originalFsimage.getAbsolutePath());
+      int port = viewer.getPort();
+      // create a WebHdfsFileSystem instance
+      URI uri = new URI("webhdfs://localhost:" + String.valueOf(port));
+      Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+      WebHdfsFileSystem webfs = (WebHdfsFileSystem) FileSystem.get(uri, conf);
+      ContentSummary summary = webfs.getContentSummary(new Path("/link1"));
+      verifyContentSummary(symLinkSummaryFromDFS, summary);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testGetContentSummaryForDirContainsSymlink() throws Exception {
+    try (WebImageViewer viewer = new WebImageViewer(
+        NetUtils.createSocketAddr("localhost:0"))) {
+      viewer.initServer(originalFsimage.getAbsolutePath());
+      int port = viewer.getPort();
+      // create a WebHdfsFileSystem instance
+      URI uri = new URI("webhdfs://localhost:" + String.valueOf(port));
+      Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+      WebHdfsFileSystem webfs = (WebHdfsFileSystem) FileSystem.get(uri, conf);
+      ContentSummary summary = webfs.getContentSummary(new Path(
+          "/dirForLinks/"));
+      verifyContentSummary(symLinkSummaryForDirContainsFromDFS, summary);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private void verifyContentSummary(ContentSummary expected,
+      ContentSummary actual) {
+    assertEquals(expected.getDirectoryCount(), actual.getDirectoryCount());
+    assertEquals(expected.getFileCount(), actual.getFileCount());
+    assertEquals(expected.getLength(), actual.getLength());
+    assertEquals(expected.getSpaceConsumed(), actual.getSpaceConsumed());
+    assertEquals(expected.getQuota(), actual.getQuota());
+    assertEquals(expected.getSpaceQuota(), actual.getSpaceQuota());
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testGetContentSummaryResponseCode() throws Exception {
+    try (WebImageViewer viewer = new WebImageViewer(
+        NetUtils.createSocketAddr("localhost:0"))) {
+      viewer.initServer(originalFsimage.getAbsolutePath());
+      int port = viewer.getPort();
+      URL url = new URL("http://localhost:" + port
+          + "/webhdfs/v1/dir123/?op=GETCONTENTSUMMARY");
+      HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+      connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
+      connection.connect();
+      assertEquals(HttpURLConnection.HTTP_NOT_FOUND,
+          connection.getResponseCode());
+    }
+  }
+}