Stephen Patel created HIVE-17810:
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Summary: Creating a table through HCatClient without specifying
columns throws a NullPointerException on the server
Key: HIVE-17810
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-17810
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Components: HCatalog
Reporter: Stephen Patel
Priority: Minor
I've attached a simple test case using the AvroSerde (which generates it's own
columns) that, when run will throw this error:
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2017-10-13T15:49:17,697 ERROR [pool-6-thread-2] metastore.RetryingHMSHandler:
MetaException(message:java.lang.NullPointerException)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.newMetaException(HiveMetaStore.java:6560)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.create_table_with_environment_context(HiveMetaStore.java:1635)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invokeInternal(RetryingHMSHandler.java:148)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:107)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy30.create_table_with_environment_context(Unknown
Source)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$create_table_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:11710)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$create_table_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:11694)
at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:110)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor$1.run(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:106)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
at
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1807)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.TUGIBasedProcessor.process(TUGIBasedProcessor.java:118)
at
org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:286)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.validateTblColumns(MetaStoreUtils.java:621)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.create_table_core(HiveMetaStore.java:1433)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.create_table_core(HiveMetaStore.java:1420)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.create_table_with_environment_context(HiveMetaStore.java:1621)
... 20 more
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By default the StorageDescriptor in the HCatTable class has a null column list.
When calling hCatTable.cols(emptyList), the hCatTable will determine that the
list is equal to it's current column list and won't set the empty list on the
StorageDescriptor, thus leading to the NullPointerException.
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