[HIVE-9266] Hive fails when LOCATION does not beging with hdfs:// due to encryption changes

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Assignee: Sergio Peña
• Reporter: Sergio Peña
• Created: 06/Jan/15 20:32
• Updated: 06/Jan/15 20:39
• Resolved: 06/Jan/15 20:39

Description

The following error shows in Hiveserver2 logs:

2014-12-31 13:22:01,920 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver: FAILED: NullPointerException null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.getStagingDirectoryPathname(SemanticAnalyzer.java:1640)

When looking at "show create table" the LOCATION does not have a preceding "hdfs://"

We should change the following:

// Only HDFS paths can be checked for encryption
if (tablePath.toUri().getScheme().equals("hdfs")) {

to:

"hdfs".equals(tablePath.toUri().getScheme())
( Also on line 1605, in getStrongestEncryptedTablePath )

This will avoid the NPE, and allow it to be more resilient to bad locations.