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Navis commented on HIVE-4222: ----------------------------- It's copied from Oracle JDK7 and I admit I don't know about license things. hm.. > Timestamp type constants cannot be deserialized in JDK 1.6 or less > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-4222 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4222 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Types > Reporter: Navis > Assignee: Navis > Attachments: HIVE-4222.D9681.1.patch > > > For example, > {noformat} > ExprNodeConstantDesc constant = new > ExprNodeConstantDesc(TypeInfoFactory.timestampTypeInfo, new Timestamp(100)); > String serialized = Utilities.serializeExpression(constant); > ExprNodeConstantDesc deserilized = (ExprNodeConstantDesc) > Utilities.deserializeExpression(serialized, new Configuration()); > {noformat} > logs error message > {noformat} > java.lang.InstantiationException: java.sql.Timestamp > Continuing ... > java.lang.RuntimeException: failed to evaluate: <unbound>=Class.new(); > Continuing ... > {noformat} > and makes NPE in final. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira