[SENTRY-1459] Alter view with HMS Client fails with "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not create a Path from a null string"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Assignee: Ankur Gupta
• Reporter: Sravya Tirukkovalur
• Created: 06/Sep/16 20:50
• Updated: 12/Feb/18 19:57
• Resolved: 11/Oct/16 16:47

Description

2016-08-25 13:32:51,470 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler: [pool-6-thread-69]: MetaException(message:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not create a Path from a null string)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.newMetaException(HiveMetaStore.java:5438)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_table_core(HiveMetaStore.java:3470)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_table_with_environment_context(HiveMetaStore.java:3430)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invokeInternal(RetryingHMSHandler.java:133)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:99)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy20.alter_table_with_environment_context(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_table_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:9469)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$alter_table_with_environment_context.getResult(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:9453)
at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39)
at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:39)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor$1.run(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:684)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor$1.run(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:679)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1671)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor.process(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:679)
at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:285)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not create a Path from a null string
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.checkPathArg(Path.java:123)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:135)
at org.apache.sentry.core.common.utils.PathUtils.parseURI(PathUtils.java:110)
at org.apache.sentry.core.common.utils.PathUtils.parseDFSURI(PathUtils.java:100)
at org.apache.sentry.binding.metastore.MetastoreAuthzBinding.authorizeAlterTable(MetastoreAuthzBinding.java:284)
at org.apache.sentry.binding.metastore.MetastoreAuthzBinding.onEvent(MetastoreAuthzBinding.java:188)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.firePreEvent(HiveMetaStore.java:2028)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_table_core(HiveMetaStore.java:3449)
... 22 more

Seems like we need to add a null path check here. See MetastoreAuthzBindingBase. A test case can be added in TestMetastoreEndToEnd for alter view.

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Sub-Tasks

• Port Sentry-1459 to sentry-ha-redesign: Resolved