[HCATALOG-497] HCatContext should use the jobconf instead of its own conf

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Assignee: Travis Crawford
• Reporter: Travis Crawford
• Created: 08/Sep/12 16:55
• Updated: 15/Feb/13 21:32
• Resolved: 27/Sep/12 20:57

Description

HCatContext is a recently added class that provides global configuration access, which is very useful to configure static converter classes.

An issue was discovered running in full MR mode that was missed in the unit tests. Since HCatContext has its own configuration object, its never passed to tasks on the cluster.

HCatContext should reuse the job conf which is passed to worker tasks by the MR framework, so settings are present in both the FE/BE.