[HIVE-20088] Beeline config location path is assembled incorrectly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: Beeline
• Labels: easyfix usability
• Assignee: Dénes Bodó
• Reporter: Dénes Bodó
• Created: 04/Jul/18 12:56
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 08:55
• Resolved: 12/Jul/18 07:10

Description

Checking the code in

https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/branch-3/beeline/src/java/org/apache/hive/beeline/hs2connection/UserHS2ConnectionFileParser.java
or in
https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/branch-3/beeline/src/java/org/apache/hive/beeline/hs2connection/BeelineSiteParser.java
I see

locations.add(ETC_HIVE_CONF_LOCATION + DEFAULT_BEELINE_SITE_FILE_NAME);

whee file separator shall be used:

locations.add(ETC_HIVE_CONF_LOCATION + File.separator + DEFAULT_BEELINE_SITE_FILE_NAME);

Due to this, BeeLine cannot use configuration in case if this would be the only way.

In my hadoop-3 setup, the locations list contains the following:

/home/myuser/.beeline/beeline-site.xml
/etc/hive/confbeeline-site.xml