The NPE comes from AuthorizationMetaStoreFilterHook#getFilteredObjects at:
SessionState ss = SessionState.get(); // returns null
HiveAuthzContext.Builder authzContextBuilder = new HiveAuthzContext.Builder();
authzContextBuilder.setUserIpAddress(ss.getUserIpAddress());
Stacktrace: [3]
[3]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.plugin.AuthorizationMetaStoreFilterHook.getFilteredObjects(AuthorizationMetaStoreFilterHook.java:78)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.plugin.AuthorizationMetaStoreFilterHook.filterDatabases(AuthorizationMetaStoreFilterHook.java:55)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.getDatabases(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:1345)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.getDatabases(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:1340)
at
org.apache.hive.hcatalog.common.HiveClientCache$CacheableHiveMetaStoreClient.isOpen(HiveClientCache.java:471)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.invoke(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:208)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy88.isOpen(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.hive.hcatalog.common.HiveClientCache.get(HiveClientCache.java:270)
at
org.apache.hive.hcatalog.common.HCatUtil.getHiveMetastoreClient(HCatUtil.java:569)
at
org.apache.hive.hcatalog.mapreduce.HCatOutputFormat.setOutput(HCatOutputFormat.java:90)
