[HCATALOG-164] NPE when illustrating a relation

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: pig
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Min Zhou
• Created: 18/Nov/11 07:31
• Updated: 12/May/12 00:42
• Resolved: 12/May/12 00:42

Description

It seems that outputSchema hasn't been initialized while illustrating a relation in pig like below

register lib/hive-common-0.7.1.jar;                                         
register lib/hive-metastore-0.7.1.jar;
register lib/libfb303.jar; 
register lib/libthrift.jar;      
register lib/hive-serde-0.7.1.jar; 
register lib/hcatalog-0.2.0.jar;
A = LOAD 'orders' USING org.apache.hcatalog.pig.HCatLoader();
ILLUSTRATE A;

so NPE would throw

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hcatalog.pig.PigHCatUtil.transformToTuple(PigHCatUtil.java:274)
        at org.apache.hcatalog.pig.PigHCatUtil.transformToTuple(PigHCatUtil.java:238)
        at org.apache.hcatalog.pig.HCatBaseLoader.getNext(HCatBaseLoader.java:61)
        at org.apache.pig.impl.io.ReadToEndLoader.getNextHelper(ReadToEndLoader.java:210)
        at org.apache.pig.impl.io.ReadToEndLoader.getNext(ReadToEndLoader.java:190)
        at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POLoad.getNext(POLoad.java:129)
        at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapBase.runPipeline(PigGenericMapBase.java:267)
        at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapBase.map(PigGenericMapBase.java:262)
        at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapBase.map(PigGenericMapBase.java:64)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:145)
        at org.apache.pig.pen.LocalMapReduceSimulator.launchPig(LocalMapReduceSimulator.java:194)
        at org.apache.pig.pen.ExampleGenerator.getData(ExampleGenerator.java:257)
        at org.apache.pig.pen.ExampleGenerator.readBaseData(ExampleGenerator.java:222)
        at org.apache.pig.pen.ExampleGenerator.getExamples(ExampleGenerator.java:154)
        at org.apache.pig.PigServer.getExamples(PigServer.java:1245)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.processIllustrate(GruntParser.java:698)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.Illustrate(PigScriptParser.java:591)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:306)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:188)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:164)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.run(Grunt.java:67)
        at org.apache.pig.Main.run(Main.java:487)
        at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:108)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:165)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:54)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:68)