Thomas Tauber-Marshall created IMPALA-8457:
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Summary: Fix python when Impala isn't fully built
Key: IMPALA-8457
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-8457
Project: IMPALA
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Infrastructure
Affects Versions: Impala 3.3.0
Reporter: Thomas Tauber-Marshall
Assignee: Thomas Tauber-Marshall
A common pattern is to check out Impala, eg. in a Jenkins job, and then run
Impala's functional python tests. If the tests are being run against a real
cluster that has already been setup (as opposed to being run against the
mini-cluster), it would be nice to be able to run any of our python tests
without having to do a full build of Impala.
This usually works, but occasionally gets broken eg. due to people adding
imports of thrift structs to python files, since the thrift definitions aren't
available without a full build. We dealt with this once recently in
IMPALA-8199, and it has now cropped up again as a result of IMPALA-8158
Going forward, I think a good solution would be to add a flag to buildall.sh,
say '-testonly', that ensures that everything needed to run the python tests is
done, eg. in this case something like 'make thrift-deps' should get run.
We could incorporate running this into our pre-commit job to ensure that it
doesn't get broken again in the future.
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