[HIVE-18371] Create more tests for standalone-metastore HiveMetaStoreClient API

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Peter Vary
• Created: 04/Jan/18 08:47
• Updated: 04/Jan/18 08:47

Description

Since we would like to release the metastore as a standalone module, it would be good to create a more extensive test suite for the public API methods.
This umbrella jira aims to collect the tasks aimed for this goal

Sub-Tasks

• Create testing infra to test different HMS instances: Closed
• Create tests to cover alterPartition and renamePartition methods: Closed
• Create tests to cover dropPartition methods: Closed
• Create tests for function related methods: Closed
• Create tests for table related methods (get, list, exists): Closed
• Create tests to cover getPartition(s) methods: Closed
• Create tests to cover listPartition(s) methods: Closed
• Create tests to cover add partition methods: Closed
• Create tests to cover add/alter/drop index methods: Closed
• Create tests to cover get and list index methods: Closed
• Create tests for table manipulation related methods (create, alter, drop): Closed
• Fix generated checkstyle errors: Closed
• Create tests to cover getTableMeta method: Closed
• Create tests to cover appendPartition methods: Closed
• Inconsistent exceptions between different IMetaStoreClient implementations: Open
• Create tests to cover adding partitions from PartitionSpec: Closed
• Create tests to cover exchange partitions: Closed
• Fix flaky tests in MetaStore client tests: Open
• Fix MetaStore creation in tests, so multiple MetaStores can be started on the same machine: Closed
• Refactor tests, so only 1 MetaStore instance will be started per test class and test configuration: Closed