[HIVE-24591] Move Beeline To SLF4J Simple Logger

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Beeline
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: David Mollitor
• Reporter: David Mollitor
• Created: 06/Jan/21 15:04
• Updated: 14/Apr/21 00:18

Description

To make beeline as simple as possible, move its SLF4J logger implementation to SLFJ-Simple logger. This will allow users to change the logging level simply on the command line. Currently uses must create a Log4J configuration file which is way too advance/cumbersome for a data analyst that just wants to use SQL (and do some minor troubleshooting)

export HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS="-Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel=debug"
beeline ...

http://www.slf4j.org/api/org/slf4j/impl/SimpleLogger.html

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-24348 Beeline: Isolating dependencies and execution with java
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1833