Which version of Hive are you running?
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Saurabh S <saurab...@live.com> wrote: > > Well it seems that simply moving the set header statement after the 'create > temporary function' statement works just fine. > > ---------------------------------------- >> 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 >> >
