[HIVE-6173] Beeline doesn't accept --hiveconf option as Hive CLI does

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: CLI
• Labels: TODOC13
• Release Note: This (--hiveconf option) needs documentation if not being documented yet.
• Assignee: Xuefu Zhang Assign to me
• Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
• Created: 09/Jan/14 02:46
• Updated: 16/Feb/15 22:18
• Resolved: 01/Feb/14 03:17

Description

> beeline -u jdbc:hive2:// --hiveconf a=b
Usage: java org.apache.hive.cli.beeline.BeeLine 

Since Beeline is replacing Hive CLI, it should support this command line option as well.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-5677 Beeline warns about unavailable files if HIVE_OPTS is set
• is related to: HIVE-6340 Beeline outputs error message when HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH is set
• is related to: HIVE-6652 Beeline gives evasive error message for any unrecognized command line arguement
• is required by: HIVE-6340 Beeline outputs error message when HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH is set
• requires: HIVE-6217 Refactor Beeline's JDBC connection to use property map instead of long url
• links to: https://reviews.apache.org/r/16910/