[KUDU-977] Poor error message when Impala CREATE TABLE has bad properties

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Private Beta
• Component/s: impala, supportability
• Target Version/s: Public beta
• Code Review: http://gerrit.sjc.cloudera.com:8080/?l=140#/c/7476/
• Assignee: Martin Grund
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 11/Aug/15 16:11
• Updated: 17/Aug/15 17:30
• Resolved: 17/Aug/15 17:30

Description

Ricky tried:

'kudu.master_addresses' = 'host-10-17-81-49.coe.cloudera.com',
'kudu.key_columns' = 'col_id'
)

and got

ERROR:
ImpalaRuntimeException: Error creating Kudu table
CAUSED BY: IllegalStateException: null

because his master address had no port. Leaving aside that we should probably fill in the default port, the error message should also be better.