View as lookup table is not supported now; I'm not sure whether this would resolve it, you can watch and comment directly in JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KYLIN-824
2015-06-26 7:17 GMT+08:00 Tero Paananen <[email protected]>: > Can I use a Hive view as a lookup table in a cube? > > I just tried building a cube where a Hive view was defined as one of > the lookup tables and this is the error I got in the "Build Dimension > Dictionary" step: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3023) > at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:595) > at org.apache.kylin.common.util.HadoopUtil.makeURI(HadoopUtil.java:59) > at > org.apache.kylin.common.util.HadoopUtil.getFileSystem(HadoopUtil.java:54) > at > org.apache.kylin.dict.lookup.HiveTable.computeHDFSLocation(HiveTable.java:106) > at > org.apache.kylin.dict.lookup.HiveTable.getHDFSLocation(HiveTable.java:83) > at org.apache.kylin.dict.lookup.HiveTable.getFileTable(HiveTable.java:76) > at org.apache.kylin.dict.lookup.HiveTable.getSignature(HiveTable.java:71) > at org.apache.kylin.dict.lookup.SnapshotTable.<init>(SnapshotTable.java:55) > at > org.apache.kylin.dict.lookup.SnapshotManager.buildSnapshot(SnapshotManager.java:88) > at > org.apache.kylin.cube.CubeManager.buildSnapshotTable(CubeManager.java:191) > at > org.apache.kylin.cube.cli.DictionaryGeneratorCLI.processSegment(DictionaryGeneratorCLI.java:61) > at > org.apache.kylin.cube.cli.DictionaryGeneratorCLI.processSegment(DictionaryGeneratorCLI.java:42) > at > org.apache.kylin.job.hadoop.dict.CreateDictionaryJob.run(CreateDictionaryJob.java:53) > > -TPP >
