There was a typo in my previous email. The where clause in Hive query which
ran into exception was "where f(col) = true"

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Ping Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:

> I figured the source of error: The UDF function (say, f) returns boolean
> value. The where clause in Hive query was "where f(col) is true)". I change
> the where clause to "where f(col)". Then it works.
>
> I did other contrived test by changing the return type of UDF to int. The
> where clause in Hive query is changed to "where f(col)=1". It also works.
>
> Is this an issue/bug of Hive compiler?
>
> Ping
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Ping Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have tested this simple UDF function locally. The function itself is
>> properly implemented.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Ping Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   I have a problem with calling a simple UDF function in Hive query. I
>>> compiled the function and created a jar file on my local pc. Then the jar
>>> file is sent to a remote Hive cluster and deployed. When this UDF function
>>> is called in a Hive query, an error "FAILED: Unknown exception: null"
>>> returns. I checked Hive log file, the detailed error message is:
>>>
>>> 2010-07-21 15:45:33,590 ERROR ql.Driver
>>> (SessionState.java:printError(248)) - FAILED: Unknown exception: null
>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.generic.GenericUDFUtils$ConversionHelper.<init>(GenericUDFUtils.java:214)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.generic.GenericUDFBridge.initialize(GenericUDFBridge.java:140)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.plan.exprNodeGenericFuncDesc.newInstance(exprNodeGenericFuncDesc.java:141)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.getFuncExprNodeDesc(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:444)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.getXpathOrFuncExprNodeDesc(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:541)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.process(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:634)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultRuleDispatcher.dispatch(DefaultRuleDispatcher.java:80)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.dispatch(DefaultGraphWalker.java:83)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.walk(DefaultGraphWalker.java:117)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.startWalking(DefaultGraphWalker.java:95)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genExprNodeDesc(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5283)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genFilterPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:1005)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genFilterPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:991)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genBodyPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:4234)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:4714)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5203)
>>>          at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:105)
>>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:275)
>>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runCommand(Driver.java:320)
>>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:312)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:123)
>>>         at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:181)
>>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:287)
>>>         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>>         at
>>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>>>         at
>>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>>>         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>>>         at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156)
>>>
>>>
>>>   The versions of Hive installed on my local pc and remote Hive cluster
>>> are 0.6 and 0.5 respectively. I copied corresponding jar files which are
>>> needed to compile the UDF function from remote Hive cluster, but it still
>>> does not work.
>>>
>>>   Any suggestions/comments will be highly appreciated.
>>>
>>>   Thanks and best regards,
>>>
>>>   Ping
>>>
>>
>>
>

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