It was just renamed recently: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/10981
As SessionState is entirely managed by Spark’s code, it still seems like this is a bug with Spark 1.6.0, and not with how our application is using HiveContext. But I’d feel more confident filing a bug if someone else could confirm they’re having this issue with Spark 1.6.0. Ideally, we should also have some simple proof of concept that can be posted with the bug. From: Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com<mailto:yuzhih...@gmail.com>> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 3:57 PM To: Jay Shipper <shipper_...@bah.com<mailto:shipper_...@bah.com>> Cc: "user@spark.apache.org<mailto:user@spark.apache.org>" <user@spark.apache.org<mailto:user@spark.apache.org>> Subject: Re: [External] Re: Spark 1.6.0 HiveContext NPE In ClientWrapper.scala, the SessionState.get().getConf call might have been executed ahead of SessionState.start(state) at line 194. This was the JIRA: [SPARK-10810] [SPARK-10902] [SQL] Improve session management in SQL In master branch, there is no more ClientWrapper.scala FYI On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Shipper, Jay [USA] <shipper_...@bah.com<mailto:shipper_...@bah.com>> wrote: One quick update on this: The NPE is not happening with Spark 1.5.2, so this problem seems specific to Spark 1.6.0. From: Jay Shipper <shipper_...@bah.com<mailto:shipper_...@bah.com>> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 12:06 PM To: "user@spark.apache.org<mailto:user@spark.apache.org>" <user@spark.apache.org<mailto:user@spark.apache.org>> Subject: Re: [External] Re: Spark 1.6.0 HiveContext NPE Right, I could already tell that from the stack trace and looking at Spark’s code. What I’m trying to determine is why that’s coming back as null now, just from upgrading Spark to 1.6.0. From: Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com<mailto:yuzhih...@gmail.com>> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 12:04 PM To: Jay Shipper <shipper_...@bah.com<mailto:shipper_...@bah.com>> Cc: "user@spark.apache.org<mailto:user@spark.apache.org>" <user@spark.apache.org<mailto:user@spark.apache.org>> Subject: [External] Re: Spark 1.6.0 HiveContext NPE Looks like the NPE came from this line: def conf: HiveConf = SessionState.get().getConf Meaning SessionState.get() returned null. On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Shipper, Jay [USA] <shipper_...@bah.com<mailto:shipper_...@bah.com>> wrote: I’m upgrading an application from Spark 1.4.1 to Spark 1.6.0, and I’m getting a NullPointerException from HiveContext. It’s happening while it tries to load some tables via JDBC from an external database (not Hive), using context.read().jdbc(): — java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.conf(ClientWrapper.scala:205) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.hiveconf$lzycompute(HiveContext.scala:552) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.hiveconf(HiveContext.scala:551) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext$$anonfun$configure$1.apply(HiveContext.scala:538) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext$$anonfun$configure$1.apply(HiveContext.scala:537) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244) at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:318) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:244) at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:105) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.configure(HiveContext.scala:537) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.metadataHive$lzycompute(HiveContext.scala:250) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.metadataHive(HiveContext.scala:237) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext$$anon$2.<init>(HiveContext.scala:457) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.catalog$lzycompute(HiveContext.scala:457) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.catalog(HiveContext.scala:456) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext$$anon$3.<init>(HiveContext.scala:473) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.analyzer$lzycompute(HiveContext.scala:473) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.analyzer(HiveContext.scala:472) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.assertAnalyzed(QueryExecution.scala:34) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.<init>(DataFrame.scala:133) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$.apply(DataFrame.scala:52) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext.baseRelationToDataFrame(SQLContext.scala:442) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.jdbc(DataFrameReader.scala:223) at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.jdbc(DataFrameReader.scala:146) — Even though the application is not using Hive, HiveContext is used instead of SQLContext, for the additional functionality it provides. There’s no hive-site.xml for the application, but this did not cause an issue for Spark 1.4.1. Does anyone have an idea about what’s changed from 1.4.1 to 1.6.0 that could explain this NPE? The only obvious change I’ve noticed for HiveContext is that the default warehouse location is different (1.4.1 - current directory, 1.6.0 - /user/hive/warehouse), but I verified that this NPE happens even when /user/hive/warehouse exists and is readable/writeable for the application. In terms of changes to the application to work with Spark 1.6.0, the only one that might be relevant to this issue is the upgrade in the Hadoop dependencies to match what Spark 1.6.0 uses (2.6.0-cdh5.7.0-SNAPSHOT). Thanks, Jay
