HiveInputFormat.readFields should print the cause when there's an exception ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-1741 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1741 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 0.7.0 Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans Priority: Trivial Minor annoyance when it comes to debugging using exotic input formats, currently if you do something wrong trying to get the HBase handler working you get something like this: {noformat} java.io.IOException: Cannot create an instance of InputSplit class = org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseSplit:org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseSplit at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat$HiveInputSplit.readFields(HiveInputFormat.java:147) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:333) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:307) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170) {noformat} It could be a lot more helpful to see the cause, in my case: {noformat} java.io.IOException: Cannot create an instance of InputSplit class = org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseSplit:org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseSplit at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat$HiveInputSplit.readFields(HiveInputFormat.java:147) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:333) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:307) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseSplit at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) ... at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getClassByName(Configuration.java:907) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat$HiveInputSplit.readFields(HiveInputFormat.java:144) {noformat} It's just a matter of doing this in readFields: {code} - + inputSplitClassName + ":" + e.getMessage()); + + inputSplitClassName + ":" + e.getMessage(), e); {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.