Eugene Koifman created HIVE-5051: ------------------------------------ Summary: StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider masks lower level exception with IllegalStateException Key: HIVE-5051 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5051 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Authorization Affects Versions: 0.12.0 Reporter: Eugene Koifman Assignee: Eugene Koifman Fix For: 0.12.0
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider has the following 2 methods private HiveException hiveException(Exception e) { HiveException ex = new HiveException(e); ex.initCause(e); return ex; } private AuthorizationException authorizationException(Exception e) { AuthorizationException ex = new AuthorizationException(e); ex.initCause(e); return ex; } both, when called, will cause throw new IllegalStateException("Can't overwrite cause"); to be thrown and the original Exception is lost. See http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/6-b14/java/lang/Throwable.java#Throwable.initCause%28java.lang.Throwable%29 -- 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