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ZhuangjieZheng commented on HIVE-5680: -------------------------------------- Now my temporary resolution is using the command: 'hive -f cmd.sql'. The file content are: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test; CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE `test`(`key` string, `uid` int) STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ("hbase.columns.mapping" = ":key,d:uid#b")TBLPROPERTIES("hbase.table.name" = "test"); INSERT INTO TABLE test select key, uid from reg; > Hive writes to HBase table throws NullPointerException > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-5680 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5680 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: HBase Handler > Affects Versions: 0.12.0 > Environment: Hadoop 1.0.4, HBase 0.94.6.1, Hive 0.12.0 > Reporter: ZhuangjieZheng > Labels: hbase > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > > When I create hive external table for hbase, and insert data into it under > hive shell environment. It can run successfully. but after I quit it and > reconnect with bin/hive command, the insert operation throws > NullPointerException. > [hadoop@dn01 hive]$ bin/hive > hive> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE `test`(`key` string, `uid` int) STORED BY > 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES > ("hbase.columns.mapping" = ":key,d:uid#b")TBLPROPERTIES("hbase.table.name" = > "test"); > ...... > hive> insert into table test select key, uid from reg; > ......successfully > hive> quit; > [hadoop@dn01 hive]$ bin/hive > hive> insert into table test select key, uid from reg; > Total MapReduce jobs = 1 > Launching Job 1 out of 1 > Number of reduce tasks is set to 0 since there's no reduce operator > java.lang.NullPointerException > at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:394) > at java.util.Properties.setProperty(Properties.java:143) > at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.set(Configuration.java:438) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Utilities.copyTableJobPropertiesToConf(Utilities.java:1840) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.checkOutputSpecs(FileSinkOperator.java:947) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveOutputFormatImpl.checkOutputSpecs(HiveOutputFormatImpl.java:67) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:889) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:850) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396) > at > org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1121) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJobInternal(JobClient.java:850) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJob(JobClient.java:824) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecDriver.execute(ExecDriver.java:425) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTask.execute(MapRedTask.java:144) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:151) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:65) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1414) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1192) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1020) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:888) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:259) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:216) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:413) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:781) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:675) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:614) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) > Job Submission failed with exception 'java.lang.NullPointerException(null)' > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTask -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)