[HIVE-18963] JDBC: Provide an option to simplify beeline usage by supporting default and named URL for beeline

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Beeline
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HiveServer2+Clients#HiveServer2Clients-Usingbeeline-site.xmltoautomaticallyconnecttoHiveServer2

• Assignee: Vaibhav Gumashta
• Reporter: Vaibhav Gumashta
• Created: 14/Mar/18 23:51
• Updated: 22/May/18 23:13
• Resolved: 02/Apr/18 18:36

Description

Currently, after opening Beeline CLI, the user needs to supply a connection string to use the HS2 instance and set up the jdbc driver. Since we plan to replace Hive CLI with Beeline in future (HIVE-10511), it will help the usability if the user can simply type beeline and get start the hive session. The jdbc url can be specified in a beeline-site.xml (which can contain other named jdbc urls as well, and they can be accessed by something like: beeline -c namedUrl. The use of beeline-site.xml can also be potentially expanded later if needed.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-14063 beeline to auto connect to the HiveServer2
• links to: Review Board