[HIVE-5051] StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider masks lower level exception with IllegalStateException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Authorization
• Assignee: Eugene Koifman
• Reporter: Eugene Koifman
• Created: 10/Aug/13 00:40
• Updated: 22/Oct/13 01:16
• Resolved: 13/Aug/13 12:03

Description

org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider

has the following 2 methods

private HiveException hiveException(Exception e)

{ HiveException ex = new HiveException(e); ex.initCause(e); return ex; }

private AuthorizationException authorizationException(Exception e)

{ AuthorizationException ex = new AuthorizationException(e); ex.initCause(e); return ex; }

both, when called, will cause
throw new IllegalStateException("Can't overwrite cause"); to be thrown and the original Exception is lost.

See http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/6-b14/java/lang/Throwable.java#Throwable.initCause%28java.lang.Throwable%29

Issue Links

• blocks: HIVE-4601 WebHCat needs to support proxy users
• relates to: HIVE-5603 several classes call initCause which masks lower level exceptions