Carl Laird created HIVE-8307: -------------------------------- Summary: null character in columns.comments schema property breaks jobconf.xml Key: HIVE-8307 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8307 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore Affects Versions: 0.13.1, 0.13.0 Reporter: Carl Laird
It would appear that the fix for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6681 is causing the null character to show up in job config xml files: I get the following when trying to insert into an elasticsearch backed table: [Fatal Error] :336:51: Character reference "&# 14/06/17 14:40:11 FATAL conf.Configuration: error parsing conf file: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 336; columnNumber: 51; Character reference "&# Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 336; columnNumber: 51; Character reference "&# at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.loadResource(Configuration.java:1263) at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.loadResources(Configuration.java:1129) at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getProps(Configuration.java:1063) at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.get(Configuration.java:416) at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getBoolean(Configuration.java:604) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf.getBoolVar(HiveConf.java:1273) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecDriver.main(ExecDriver.java:667) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 336; columnNumber: 51; Character reference "&# at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:251) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:300) at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:121) at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.loadResource(Configuration.java:1181) ... 11 more Execution failed with exit status: 1 Line 336 of jobconf.xml: <property><name>columns.comments</name><value>������������</value></property> See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mongodb-user/lKbha0SzMP8/jvE8ZrJom4AJ for more discussion. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)