[SQOOP-1807] Incremental import to HBase with free form query is broken

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: hbase-integration
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Abraham Elmahrek
• Created: 25/Nov/14 00:08
• Updated: 30/Oct/17 14:05

Description

See http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/sqoop-user/201411.mbox/%3CCAH76rPar1gQF0_9FFTaTOd-7uVosdvXgyv%3Dc5xoNGCmV-zOyFQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E for more info.

It appears Sqoop is trying to append to a directory that doesn't exist. It shouldn't be appending to a directory because it's writing to HBase. When stepping through the code, the trace is:

status: 'RUNNING'
	  at org.apache.sqoop.util.AppendUtils.append(AppendUtils.java:78)
	  at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:504)
	  at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:605)
	  at org.apache.sqoop.tool.JobTool.execJob(JobTool.java:228)
	  at org.apache.sqoop.tool.JobTool.run(JobTool.java:283)
	  at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:143)
	  at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
	  at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:179)
	  at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218)
	  at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:227)
	  at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:236)