Well it seems that simply moving the set header statement after the 'create
temporary function' statement works just fine.
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> From: saurab...@live.com
> To: user@hive.apache.org
> Subject: 'set cli header' throws null pointer exception
> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:11:09 -0700
>
>
> This is a weird issue. I've been setting hive CLI headers for a long time
> using the following:
>
> set hive.cli.print.header=true;
>
> Recently, I started using custom Hive UDF. Here is my test file, myfunc.sql:
>
> --
> add jar <myjar>;
> create temporary function <myfunc> as <appropriate path>;
> <test query 1>;
> <test query 2>;
> --
>
> This works just fine. However, if I add the line hive cli header to the top,
> Hive crashes at line 2, i.e. the create temporary function with the following
> error:
>
> --
> Added /home/somejar.jar to class path
> Added resource: /home/somejar.jar
> OK
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:221)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:286)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processReader(CliDriver.java:310)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processFile(CliDriver.java:317)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:490)
> 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:197)
> --
>
> Any idea what's going on?
>
> Regards,
> Saurabh
>
