Author: hashutosh
Date: Fri Oct 17 15:42:22 2014
New Revision: 1632615
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1632615
Log:
HIVE-8476 : JavaDoc updates to HiveEndPoint.newConnection() for secure
streaming with Kerberos (Roshan Naik via Ashutosh Chauhan)
Modified:
hive/trunk/hcatalog/streaming/src/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/streaming/HiveEndPoint.java
Modified:
hive/trunk/hcatalog/streaming/src/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/streaming/HiveEndPoint.java
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hive/trunk/hcatalog/streaming/src/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/streaming/HiveEndPoint.java?rev=1632615&r1=1632614&r2=1632615&view=diff
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---
hive/trunk/hcatalog/streaming/src/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/streaming/HiveEndPoint.java
(original)
+++
hive/trunk/hcatalog/streaming/src/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/streaming/HiveEndPoint.java
Fri Oct 17 15:42:22 2014
@@ -130,11 +130,16 @@ public class HiveEndPoint {
}
/**
- * Acquire a new connection to MetaStore for streaming
+ * Acquire a new connection to MetaStore for streaming. To connect using
Kerberos,
+ * 'authenticatedUser' argument should have been used to do a kerberos
login. Additionally the
+ * 'hive.metastore.kerberos.principal' setting should be set correctly
either in hive-site.xml or
+ * in the 'conf' argument (if not null). If using hive-site.xml, it
should be in classpath.
+ *
* @param createPartIfNotExists If true, the partition specified in the
endpoint
* will be auto created if it does not exist
+ * @param conf HiveConf object to be used for the connection.
Can be null.
* @param authenticatedUser UserGroupInformation object obtained from
successful authentication.
- * Uses insecure mode if this argument is null.
+ * Uses non-secure mode if this argument is null.
* @return
* @throws ConnectionError if there is a connection problem
* @throws InvalidPartition if specified partition is not valid
(createPartIfNotExists = false)
