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Sahil Takiar commented on HIVE-18898:
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Yeah, I think this patch looks good. +1 from me.
Agree we don't want to make backwards incompatible changes to the API here, so
adding the checks in the HMS Client makes sense.
> Fix NPEs in HiveMetastore.dropPartition method
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>
> Key: HIVE-18898
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18898
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Metastore
> Reporter: Marta Kuczora
> Assignee: Marta Kuczora
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HIVE-18898.1.patch, HIVE-18898.2.patch
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> The TestDropPartitions tests revealed that NPE is thrown if the
> dropPartition(String db_name, String tbl_name, List<String> part_vals,
> PartitionDropOptions options) method is called with null options and with a
> part_vals list which contains null elements.
> Example: NPE is thrown in the following test cases
> * testDropPartitionNullPartDropOptions
> * testDropPartitionNullVal
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