[SQOOP-473] Sqoop import-all-tables fails with MySQL connector

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.1-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.2
• Component/s: connectors
• Assignee: Cheolsoo Park
• Reporter: Prashant Gokhale
• Created: 30/Mar/12 00:30
• Updated: 03/Apr/12 22:19
• Resolved: 03/Apr/12 21:53

Description

Sqoop command
sqoop import-all-tables --connect jdbc:mysql://xxxx/mysqltestdb2 --username=xxxx --warehouse-dir output-dir/alltables

Output:

12/03/29 10:42:20 INFO manager.MySQLManager: Preparing to use a MySQL streaming resultset.
12/03/29 10:42:21 INFO tool.CodeGenTool: Beginning code generation
12/03/29 10:42:21 INFO manager.SqlManager: Executing SQL statement: SELECT t.* FROM `testtable` AS t LIMIT 1
12/03/29 10:42:21 ERROR sqoop.Sqoop: Got exception running Sqoop: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.sqoop.manager.ConnManager.getColumnTypeNames(ConnManager.java:306)
	at org.apache.sqoop.manager.MySQLManager.toJavaType(MySQLManager.java:237)
	at org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.toJavaType(ClassWriter.java:253)
	at org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.generateFields(ClassWriter.java:480)
	at org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.generateClassForColumns(ClassWriter.java:1306)
	at org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.generate(ClassWriter.java:1138)
	at org.apache.sqoop.tool.CodeGenTool.generateORM(CodeGenTool.java:82)
	at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:390)
	at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportAllTablesTool.run(ImportAllTablesTool.java:64)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:145)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:69)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:181)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:220)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:229)
	at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:238)
	at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:57)

I have not tested with other connectors.