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Ashutosh Chauhan commented on HIVE-3799: ---------------------------------------- +1 running tests > Better error message if metalisteners or hookContext cannot be > loaded/instantiated > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-3799 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3799 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Diagnosability, Logging > Reporter: Sudhanshu Arora > Assignee: Navis > Priority: Trivial > Attachments: HIVE-3799.D7719.1.patch, HIVE-3799.D7719.2.patch > > > If I am not able to instantiate MetaListener or HookContext because of some > dependent class missing, the only error I get is InvocationTargetException. > MetaStoreUtils.getMetaListener should be changed as following: > try { > T listener = (T) Class.forName( > listenerImpl.trim(), true, > JavaUtils.getClassLoader()).getConstructor( > Configuration.class).newInstance(conf); > listeners.add(listener); > } catch (InvocationTargetException e) { > throw new MetaException("Failed to instantiate listener named: "+ > listenerImpl + " reason: " + e.getCause().toString()); > } catch (Exception e) { > throw new MetaException("Failed to instantiate listener named: "+ > listenerImpl + " reason: " + e.toString()); > } > Similarly Driver.getHooks should be changed to handle > InvocationTargetException in a better way. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira