[HIVE-15410] WebHCat supports get/set table property with its name containing period and hyphen

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Assignee: Chaoyu Tang
• Reporter: Chaoyu Tang
• Created: 09/Dec/16 17:35
• Updated: 21/Jul/17 18:26
• Resolved: 14/Dec/16 21:06

Description

Hive table properties could have period (.) or hyphen in their names, auto.purge is one of the examples. But WebHCat APIs does not support either set or get these properties, and they throw out the error msg ""Invalid DDL identifier :property". For example:

[root@ctang-1 ~]# curl -s 'http://ctang-1.gce.cloudera.com:7272/templeton/v1/ddl/database/default/table/sample_07/property/prop.key1?user.name=hiveuser'
{"error":"Invalid DDL identifier :property"}
[root@ctang-1 ~]# curl -s -X PUT -HContent-type:application/json -d '{ "value": "true" }' 'http://ctang-1.gce.cloudera.com:7272/templeton/v1/ddl/database/default/table/sample_07/property/prop.key2?user.name=hiveuser/'
{"error":"Invalid DDL identifier :property"}

This patch is going to add the supports to the property name containing period and/or hyphen.