Eugene Koifman created HIVE-4703:
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Summary: WebHcat looses column comments and returns 'from
deserializer'
Key: HIVE-4703
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4703
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Components: HCatalog
Affects Versions: 0.12.0
Reporter: Eugene Koifman
Fix For: 0.12.0
Attachments: webhcatMini.sh
This causes Templeton e2e tests to fail.
start WeHcat server (build/dist/hcatalog/sbin/webhcat_server.sh start)
run commands in the attached webhcatMini.sh.
It creates a table with some comments on columns.
When executing describe (GET) on this table, original comments are lost and are
replaced with "from deserializer" string.
Here is the output of these commands:
localhost:dev ekoifman$ webhcatMini.sh
Running delete test_table ifExists
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie:
hadoop.auth="u=ekoifman&p=ekoifman&t=simple&e=1370945567179&s=vIBKhGQwzs5pPAY3IkhyPpDkWrY=";Version=1;Path=/;Discard
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: Jetty(7.6.0.v20120127)
{"table":"test_table","database":"default"}
Running create test_table
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie:
hadoop.auth="u=ekoifman&p=ekoifman&t=simple&e=1370945569788&s=g37NbyyRnf667IciUiIpIQNYGOo=";Version=1;Path=/;Discard
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: Jetty(7.6.0.v20120127)
{"table":"test_table","database":"default"}
Running describe test_table
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie:
hadoop.auth="u=ekoifman&p=ekoifman&t=simple&e=1370945572423&s=7kE1FOn1Co2JQzZfW0V1myqulw0=";Version=1;Path=/;Discard
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: Jetty(7.6.0.v20120127)
{"columns":[{"name":"int","comment":"from
deserializer","type":"string"},{"name":"int2","comment":"from
deserializer","type":"int"}],"database":"default","table":"test_table"}
Mon Jun 10 17:12:55 PDT 2013
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