Hi, As I tried to run some queries with JSON SerDe from Spark SQL client, I encountered that error :
17/08/07 18:20:40 ERROR SparkSQLDriver: Failed in [create external table client_project.test_ext(DocVersion string, DriverID string) row format serde 'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ("ignore.malformed.json" = "true") location '/etl/client/ct/aftermarket/processing/proj/envt=M5'] org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecutionException: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Cannot validate serde: org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper$$anonfun$runHive$1.apply(ClientWrapper.scala:455) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper$$anonfun$runHive$1.apply(ClientWrapper.scala:440) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper$$anonfun$withHiveState$1.apply(ClientWrapper.scala:278) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.retryLocked(ClientWrapper.scala:233) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.withHiveState(ClientWrapper.scala:270) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.runHive(ClientWrapper.scala:440) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.runSqlHive(ClientWrapper.scala:430) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.runSqlHive(HiveContext.scala:561) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.execution.HiveNativeCommand.run(HiveNativeCommand.scala:33) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ExecutedCommand.sideEffectResult$lzycompute(commands.scala:57) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ExecutedCommand.sideEffectResult(commands.scala:57) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ExecutedCommand.doExecute(commands.scala:69) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:140) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:138) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:147) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.execute(SparkPlan.scala:138) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$QueryExecution.toRdd$lzycompute(SQLContext.scala:933) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$QueryExecution.toRdd(SQLContext.scala:933) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.<init>(DataFrame.scala:144) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.<init>(DataFrame.scala:129) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$.apply(DataFrame.scala:51) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext.sql(SQLContext.scala:725) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLDriver.run(SparkSQLDriver.scala:62) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver.processCmd(SparkSQLCLIDriver.scala:308) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:376) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver$.main(SparkSQLCLIDriver.scala:226) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver.main(SparkSQLCLIDriver.scala) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:685) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:180) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:205) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:120) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala) org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecutionException: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Cannot validate serde: org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper$$anonfun$runHive$1.apply(ClientWrapper.scala:455) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper$$anonfun$runHive$1.apply(ClientWrapper.scala:440) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper$$anonfun$withHiveState$1.apply(ClientWrapper.scala:278) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.retryLocked(ClientWrapper.scala:233) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.withHiveState(ClientWrapper.scala:270) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.runHive(ClientWrapper.scala:440) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.runSqlHive(ClientWrapper.scala:430) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.runSqlHive(HiveContext.scala:561) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.execution.HiveNativeCommand.run(HiveNativeCommand.scala:33) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ExecutedCommand.sideEffectResult$lzycompute(commands.scala:57) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ExecutedCommand.sideEffectResult(commands.scala:57) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ExecutedCommand.doExecute(commands.scala:69) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:140) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$execute$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:138) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:147) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.execute(SparkPlan.scala:138) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$QueryExecution.toRdd$lzycompute(SQLContext.scala:933) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$QueryExecution.toRdd(SQLContext.scala:933) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.<init>(DataFrame.scala:144) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.<init>(DataFrame.scala:129) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$.apply(DataFrame.scala:51) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext.sql(SQLContext.scala:725) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLDriver.run(SparkSQLDriver.scala:62) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver.processCmd(SparkSQLCLIDriver.scala:308) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:376) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver$.main(SparkSQLCLIDriver.scala:226) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver.main(SparkSQLCLIDriver.scala) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:685) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:180) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:205) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:120) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala) I double-checked, my classpath is clean, I have both of /usr/hdp/current/hive-webhcat/share/hcatalog/hive-hcatalog-core.jar and /usr/hdp/2.3.4.0-3485/hive/lib/hive-serde.jar lib in it. Does someone know that problem ? Any inputs about where it could come from ? Thanks in advance for your help ! Regards, Loïc Loïc CHANEL System Big Data engineer MS&T - Worldline Analytics Platform - Worldline (Villeurbanne, France)