[RANGER-1483] Ranger hive service definition to use hive metastore directly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.1
• Component/s: Ranger
• Assignee: Ankita Sinha
• Reporter: Ankita Sinha
• Created: 29/Mar/17 07:35
• Updated: 29/Apr/17 02:59
• Resolved: 25/Apr/17 17:47

Description

Currently, ranger hive service definition uses hiveserver2(hs2) jdbc driver to fetch hive db/table info, which is used to populate drop downs while creating/updating policies. Adding ranger hive service definition to also use hive metastore client which read from hive metastore db.

Issue Links

• breaks: RANGER-1550 HDFS test connection and resource lookup failing
• links to: Review Request 02 for Ranger-0.7 branch
• links to: Review Request for 0.7
• links to: Review Request for master
• links to: RR 02 for Master branch