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Sravya Tirukkovalur updated SENTRY-1459: ---------------------------------------- Assignee: Vadim Spector > Alter view with HMS Client fails with "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: > Can not create a Path from a null string" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SENTRY-1459 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENTRY-1459 > Project: Sentry > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sravya Tirukkovalur > Assignee: Vadim Spector > > {code} > 2016-08-25 13:32:51,470 ERROR > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler: [pool-6-thread-69]: > MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not create a > Path from a null string) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.newMetaException(HiveMetaStore.java:5438) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_table_core(HiveMetaStore.java:3470) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_table_with_environment_context(HiveMetaStore.java:3430) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invokeInternal(RetryingHMSHandler.java:133) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:99) > at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy20.alter_table_with_environment_context(Unknown Source) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_table_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:9469) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_table_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:9453) > at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39) > at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:39) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor$1.run(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:684) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor$1.run(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:679) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) > at > org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1671) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor.process(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:679) > at > org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:285) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) > Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not create a Path from a > null string > at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.checkPathArg(Path.java:123) > at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:135) > at org.apache.sentry.core.common.utils.PathUtils.parseURI(PathUtils.java:110) > at > org.apache.sentry.core.common.utils.PathUtils.parseDFSURI(PathUtils.java:100) > at > org.apache.sentry.binding.metastore.MetastoreAuthzBinding.authorizeAlterTable(MetastoreAuthzBinding.java:284) > at > org.apache.sentry.binding.metastore.MetastoreAuthzBinding.onEvent(MetastoreAuthzBinding.java:188) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.firePreEvent(HiveMetaStore.java:2028) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_table_core(HiveMetaStore.java:3449) > ... 22 more > {code} > Seems like we need to add a null path check here. See > MetastoreAuthzBindingBase. A test case can be added in TestMetastoreEndToEnd > for alter view. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)