[SQOOP-483] Allow target dir to be set to a different name than table name for hive import

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.2
• Assignee: Cheolsoo Park
• Reporter: Cheolsoo Park
• Created: 03/May/12 23:48
• Updated: 27/May/12 07:16
• Resolved: 27/May/12 06:18

Description

Currently, the table name (set by --table) has to be the same as the target dir (set by --target-dir) for hive import. But it would be nice if the target dir could be set to a different name than the table name.

For example, we like to be able to run something like:

sqoop import ... --table "foo" --target-dir "foo1" --hive-import
sqoop import ... --table "foo" --target-dir "foo2" --hive-import

Now this generates the following call stack:

12/05/02 17:11:55 INFO hive.HiveImport: FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Line 2:17 Invalid path 'hdfs://localhost/user/cheolsoo/foo': No files matching path hdfs://localhost/user/cheolsoo/foo 
12/05/02 17:11:56 ERROR tool.ImportTool: Encountered IOException running import job: java.io.IOException: Hive exited with status 10 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.hive.HiveImport.executeExternalHiveScript(HiveImport.java:349) 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.hive.HiveImport.executeScript(HiveImport.java:299) 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.hive.HiveImport.importTable(HiveImport.java:241) 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:394) 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:455) 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:146) 
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:182) 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:221) 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:230) 
at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:239)