SPARK-3807: SparkSql does not work for tables created using custom serde

[chiragaggarwal]

SparkSql crashes on selecting tables using custom serde.

Example:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE table_name PARTITIONED BY ( a int) ROW FORMAT 'SERDE "org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.thrift.ThriftDeserializer" with serdeproperties("serialization.format"="org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol","serialization.class"="ser_class") STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE;

The following exception is seen on running a query like 'select * from table_name limit 1':

ERROR CliDriver: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.thrift.ThriftDeserializer.initialize(ThriftDeserializer.java:68)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.plan.TableDesc.getDeserializer(TableDesc.java:80)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.execution.HiveTableScan.addColumnMetadataToConf(HiveTableScan.scala:86)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.execution.HiveTableScan.(HiveTableScan.scala:100)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveStrategies$HiveTableScans$$anonfun$14.apply(HiveStrategies.scala:188)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveStrategies$HiveTableScans$$anonfun$14.apply(HiveStrategies.scala:188)
at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$SparkPlanner.pruneFilterProject(SQLContext.scala:364)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveStrategies$HiveTableScans$.apply(HiveStrategies.scala:184)
at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner$$anonfun$1.apply(QueryPlanner.scala:58)
at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner$$anonfun$1.apply(QueryPlanner.scala:58)
at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$13.hasNext(Iterator.scala:371)
at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner.apply(QueryPlanner.scala:59)
at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner.planLater(QueryPlanner.scala:54)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkStrategies$BasicOperators$.apply(SparkStrategies.scala:280)
at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner$$anonfun$1.apply(QueryPlanner.scala:58)
at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner$$anonfun$1.apply(QueryPlanner.scala:58)
at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$13.hasNext(Iterator.scala:371)
at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.planning.QueryPlanner.apply(QueryPlanner.scala:59)
at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$QueryExecution.sparkPlan$lzycompute(SQLContext.scala:402)
at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$QueryExecution.sparkPlan(SQLContext.scala:400)
at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$QueryExecution.executedPlan$lzycompute(SQLContext.scala:406)
at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$QueryExecution.executedPlan(SQLContext.scala:406)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext$QueryExecution.stringResult(HiveContext.scala:406)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLDriver.run(SparkSQLDriver.scala:59)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver.processCmd(SparkSQLCLIDriver.scala:291)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:413)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver$.main(SparkSQLCLIDriver.scala:226)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver.main(SparkSQLCLIDriver.scala)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.launch(SparkSubmit.scala:328)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:75)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

[AmplabJenkins]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[marmbrus]

ok to test

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Can one of the admins verify this patch?

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• This patch merges cleanly.
• This patch adds no public classes.

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[marmbrus]

In general we try to use descriptive variable names instead of short one. Also we do not use ;s

val deserializer = relation.tableDesc.getDeserializerClass.newInstance()

[marmbrus]

Can you also add a unit test for this? Perhaps in HiveQuerySuite.

[marmbrus]

/cc @yhuai

[chenghao-intel]

This is a good catch!, +1. It would be great if unit test added.

[yhuai]

LGTM

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QA tests have started for PR 2674 at commit 1f26805.

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[chiragaggarwal]

Incorporated the review comments and also added a test case

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QA tests have started for PR 2674 at commit 370c31b.

• This patch merges cleanly.

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QA tests have finished for PR 2674 at commit 370c31b.

• This patch passes unit tests.
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• This patch adds no public classes.

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[marmbrus]

Thanks! I've merged to master and 1.1.

In the future please make all PRs against master, and we will back port as needed.