Carter Shanklin created HIVE-16944: -------------------------------------- Summary: schematool -dbType hive should give some more feedback/assistance Key: HIVE-16944 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16944 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Carter Shanklin
Given the other ways schematool is used, the most obvious guess I would have for initializing the Hive schema is: {code} schematool -metaDbType mysql -dbType hive -initSchema {code} Unfortunately that fails with this NPE: {code} Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaHelper.java:570) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaHelper.java:564) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaHelper.java:560) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper$HiveCommandParser.<init>(HiveSchemaHelper.java:373) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaHelper.java:573) at org.apache.hive.beeline.HiveSchemaTool.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaTool.java:165) at org.apache.hive.beeline.HiveSchemaTool.<init>(HiveSchemaTool.java:101) at org.apache.hive.beeline.HiveSchemaTool.<init>(HiveSchemaTool.java:90) at org.apache.hive.beeline.HiveSchemaTool.main(HiveSchemaTool.java:1166) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:233) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148) {code} Two additional arguments are needed: -url jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default -driver org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver If the user does not supply these for dbType hive, schematool should detect and error out appropriately, plus give an example of what it's looking for. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)