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Rajesh Balamohan edited comment on HIVE-16116 at 3/6/17 6:26 AM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- {{BeelineOpts.hiveConfVariables}} is set to null when it tries to load data from beeline.properties with empty value for {{beeline.hiveconfvariables}}. This causes NPE at the time of invoking beeline with --hiveconf option. Attaching the patch which fixes this case. was (Author: rajesh.balamohan): {{BeelineOpts.hiveConfVariables}} is set to null when it tries to load data from beeline.properties with empty value for {{beeline.hiveconfvariables}}. This causes NPE at the time of invoking beeline with --hiveconf option. Patch fixes that case. > Beeline throws NPE when beeline.hiveconfvariables={} in beeline.properties > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-16116 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16116 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Beeline > Reporter: Rajesh Balamohan > Assignee: Rajesh Balamohan > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HIVE-16116.1.patch > > > Env: hive master > Steps to reproduce: > 1. clear previous beeline.properties (rm -rf ~/.beeline/beeline.properties) > 2. Launch beeline, "!save" and exit. This would create new > "~/.beeline/beeline.properties", which would have > "beeline.hiveconfvariables={}" > 3. Launch "beeline --hiveconf hive.tmp.dir=/tmp". This would throw NPE > {noformat} > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.setHiveConfVar(BeeLine.java:885) > at org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.connectUsingArgs(BeeLine.java:832) > at org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.initArgs(BeeLine.java:775) > at org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.begin(BeeLine.java:1009) > at > org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.mainWithInputRedirection(BeeLine.java:519) > at org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.main(BeeLine.java:501) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:233) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148) > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)