Thanks for the update and for fixing this bit of legacy! On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:52 AM Thomas Tauber-Marshall < tmarsh...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Impala devs, > > There is a patch that has just gone into master which switches the default > protocol for impala-shell from beeswax to hiveserver2, as part of the > ongoing process of deprecating and removing beeswax, see > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-10074 Because this is a > breaking change, it was timed to be included with Impala 4.0, per previous > discussions. > > I wanted to bring attention to this patch because it has the potential to > break tests and dev workflows in any situation where impala-shell is being > used with the --impalad/-i parameter with the beeswax port specified (by > default 21000) but without the --protocol parameter. In this situation, the > expected error message is "shell_exceptions.MissingThriftMethodException: > Invalid method name: 'OpenSession'" > > The fix is to either explicitly specify "--protocol=beeswax" or to switch > to using the hiveserver2 port (by default, 21050) >
