[jira] [Created] (HIVE-6451) Exception handling improvements

["Ding Yuan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ding Yuan created HIVE-6451:
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             Summary: Exception handling improvements
                 Key: HIVE-6451
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6451
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: HCatalog, JDBC
    Affects Versions: 0.12.0
            Reporter: Ding Yuan
            Priority: Trivial
         Attachments: hive-6451.patch

I am reporting a few cases where the exception handling could be improved. Attaching a proposed patch against trunk for review. Below are some explanations for two of the cases. Other cases are trivial by looking at the patch.

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Case 1:
The code below might throw many kinds of exceptions. While some reflection-related
exceptions such as ClassNotFoundException are expected to occur, some others, such
as InvocationTargetException, should be silently swallowed. A good practice is
to differentiate different exceptions.

Line: 1463, File: "org/apache/hive/beeline/BeeLine.java"
{noformat}
1450:       try {
1451:         Class c = Class.forName(className, false,
1452:             Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
1453:         if (!Driver.class.isAssignableFrom(c)) {
1454:           continue;
1455:         }
1456:
1457:         if (Modifier.isAbstract(c.getModifiers())) {
1458:           continue;
1459:         }
1460:
1461:         // now instantiate and initialize it
1462:         driverClasses.add(c.newInstance());
1463:       } catch (Throwable t) {
1464:       }
{noformat}

A similar snippet is at line 1522.
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Case 2:
getField(String name) will not thrown IOException, but is declared with throws IOException.

hcatalog/webhcat/svr/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/templeton/tool/JobState.java    (revision 1568587)
{noformat}
-  public String getField(String name)
-    throws IOException {
+  public String getField(String name) {
     return storage.getField(type, id, name);
   }
{noformat}
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