[HIVE-1899] add a factory method for creating a synchronized wrapper for IMetaStoreClient

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: John Sichi Assign to me
• Reporter: John Sichi
• Created: 07/Jan/11 08:20
• Updated: 16/Dec/11 23:59
• Resolved: 07/Jan/11 21:03

Description

There are currently some HiveMetaStoreClient multithreading bugs. This patch adds an (optional) synchronized wrapper for IMetaStoreClient using a dynamic proxy. This can be used for thread safety by multithreaded apps until all reentrancy bugs are fixed.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-1539 Concurrent metastore threading problem
• is related to: HIVE-1710 Add Metastore Concurrency Tests