You're probably running into
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2334, which has been fixed
in Hive 0.8+.
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Mark Grover <grover.markgro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Saurabh,
> I wasn't able to reproduce this problem on Apache Hive 0.9.0. Can you please
> try the same procedure with another jar? Perhaps, one from hive's lib
> directory like hive-builtins.jar?
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Saurabh S <saurab...@live.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The ${HIVE_HOME}/lib contains files like hive-*-0.7.1-cdh3u3.jar, so I
>> guess it's version 0.7.1 provided by Cloudera.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> > From: jgho...@gmail.com
>> > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:11:18 -0700
>> > Subject: Re: 'set cli header' throws null pointer exception
>> > To: user@hive.apache.org
>> >
>> > 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
>> > >>
>> > >
>>
>
>
