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[04/12] hive git commit: HIVE-17980 Move HiveMetaStoreClient plus a few remaining classes. This closes #272 (Alan Gates, reviewed by Daniel Dai)

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/blob/d79c4595/standalone-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/IMetaStoreClient.java
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+
+package org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore;
+
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.WMFullResourcePlan;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.ValidTxnList;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.classification.RetrySemantics;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.annotation.NoReconnect;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.AggrStats;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.AlreadyExistsException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.CmRecycleRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.CmRecycleResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ColumnStatistics;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ColumnStatisticsObj;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.CompactionResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.CompactionType;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ConfigValSecurityException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.CurrentNotificationEventId;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.DataOperationType;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Database;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.EnvironmentContext;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.FieldSchema;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.FireEventRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.FireEventResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ForeignKeysRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Function;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.GetAllFunctionsResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.GetOpenTxnsInfoResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.GetPrincipalsInRoleRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.GetPrincipalsInRoleResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.GetRoleGrantsForPrincipalRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.GetRoleGrantsForPrincipalResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.HeartbeatTxnRangeResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.HiveObjectPrivilege;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.HiveObjectRef;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Index;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.InvalidInputException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.InvalidObjectException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.InvalidOperationException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.InvalidPartitionException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.LockRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.LockResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.MetaException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.MetadataPpdResult;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.NoSuchLockException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.NoSuchObjectException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.NoSuchTxnException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.NotNullConstraintsRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.NotificationEvent;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.NotificationEventResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.NotificationEventsCountResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.NotificationEventsCountRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.OpenTxnsResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Partition;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.PartitionEventType;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.PartitionValuesRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.PartitionValuesResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.PrimaryKeysRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.PrincipalPrivilegeSet;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.PrincipalType;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.PrivilegeBag;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.WMResourcePlan;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.WMTrigger;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Role;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.SQLForeignKey;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.SQLNotNullConstraint;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.SQLPrimaryKey;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.SQLUniqueConstraint;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.SetPartitionsStatsRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ShowCompactResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ShowLocksRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ShowLocksResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.TableMeta;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.TxnAbortedException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.TxnOpenException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.UniqueConstraintsRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.UnknownDBException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.UnknownPartitionException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.UnknownTableException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.WMMapping;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.WMPool;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.partition.spec.PartitionSpecProxy;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.utils.ObjectPair;
+import org.apache.thrift.TException;
+
+/**
+ * Wrapper around hive metastore thrift api
+ */
+@InterfaceAudience.Public
+@InterfaceStability.Evolving
+public interface IMetaStoreClient {
+
+  /**
+   * Returns whether current client is compatible with conf argument or not
+   * @return
+   */
+  boolean isCompatibleWith(Configuration conf);
+
+  /**
+   * Set added jars path info to MetaStoreClient.
+   * @param addedJars the hive.added.jars.path. It is qualified paths separated by commas.
+   */
+  void setHiveAddedJars(String addedJars);
+
+  /**
+   * Returns true if the current client is using an in process metastore (local metastore).
+   *
+   * @return
+   */
+  boolean isLocalMetaStore();
+
+  /**
+   *  Tries to reconnect this MetaStoreClient to the MetaStore.
+   */
+  void reconnect() throws MetaException;
+
+  /**
+   * close connection to meta store
+   */
+  @NoReconnect
+  void close();
+
+  /**
+   * set meta variable which is open to end users
+   */
+  void setMetaConf(String key, String value) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * get current meta variable
+   */
+  String getMetaConf(String key) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get the names of all databases in the MetaStore that match the given pattern.
+   * @param databasePattern
+   * @return List of database names.
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<String> getDatabases(String databasePattern) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get the names of all databases in the MetaStore.
+   * @return List of database names.
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<String> getAllDatabases() throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get the names of all tables in the specified database that satisfy the supplied
+   * table name pattern.
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param tablePattern
+   * @return List of table names.
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws UnknownDBException
+   */
+  List<String> getTables(String dbName, String tablePattern)
+      throws MetaException, TException, UnknownDBException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get the names of all tables in the specified database that satisfy the supplied
+   * table name pattern and table type (MANAGED_TABLE || EXTERNAL_TABLE || VIRTUAL_VIEW)
+   * @param dbName Name of the database to fetch tables in.
+   * @param tablePattern pattern to match for table names.
+   * @param tableType Type of the table in the HMS store. VIRTUAL_VIEW is for views.
+   * @return List of table names.
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws UnknownDBException
+   */
+  List<String> getTables(String dbName, String tablePattern, TableType tableType)
+      throws MetaException, TException, UnknownDBException;
+
+  /**
+   * For quick GetTablesOperation
+   */
+  List<TableMeta> getTableMeta(String dbPatterns, String tablePatterns, List<String> tableTypes)
+      throws MetaException, TException, UnknownDBException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get the names of all tables in the specified database.
+   * @param dbName
+   * @return List of table names.
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws UnknownDBException
+   */
+  List<String> getAllTables(String dbName) throws MetaException, TException, UnknownDBException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get a list of table names that match a filter.
+   * The filter operators are LIKE, &lt;, &lt;=, &gt;, &gt;=, =, &lt;&gt;
+   *
+   * In the filter statement, values interpreted as strings must be enclosed in quotes,
+   * while values interpreted as integers should not be.  Strings and integers are the only
+   * supported value types.
+   *
+   * The currently supported key names in the filter are:
+   * Constants.HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_OWNER, which filters on the tables' owner's name
+   *   and supports all filter operators
+   * Constants.HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_LAST_ACCESS, which filters on the last access times
+   *   and supports all filter operators except LIKE
+   * Constants.HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_PARAMS, which filters on the tables' parameter keys and values
+   *   and only supports the filter operators = and &lt;&gt;.
+   *   Append the parameter key name to HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_PARAMS in the filter statement.
+   *   For example, to filter on parameter keys called "retention", the key name in the filter
+   *   statement should be Constants.HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_PARAMS + "retention"
+   *   Also, = and &lt;&gt; only work for keys that exist in the tables.
+   *   E.g., filtering on tables where key1 &lt;&gt; value will only
+   *   return tables that have a value for the parameter key1.
+   * Some example filter statements include:
+   * filter = Constants.HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_OWNER + " like \".*test.*\" and " +
+   *   Constants.HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_LAST_ACCESS + " = 0";
+   * filter = Constants.HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_OWNER + " = \"test_user\" and (" +
+   *   Constants.HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_PARAMS + "retention = \"30\" or " +
+   *   Constants.HIVE_FILTER_FIELD_PARAMS + "retention = \"90\")"
+   *
+   * @param dbName
+   *          The name of the database from which you will retrieve the table names
+   * @param filter
+   *          The filter string
+   * @param maxTables
+   *          The maximum number of tables returned
+   * @return  A list of table names that match the desired filter
+   */
+  List<String> listTableNamesByFilter(String dbName, String filter, short maxTables)
+      throws MetaException, TException, InvalidOperationException, UnknownDBException;
+
+
+  /**
+   * Drop the table.
+   *
+   * @param dbname
+   *          The database for this table
+   * @param tableName
+   *          The table to drop
+   * @param deleteData
+   *          Should we delete the underlying data
+   * @param ignoreUnknownTab
+   *          don't throw if the requested table doesn't exist
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           Could not drop table properly.
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   *           The table wasn't found.
+   * @throws TException
+   *           A thrift communication error occurred
+   */
+  void dropTable(String dbname, String tableName, boolean deleteData,
+      boolean ignoreUnknownTab) throws MetaException, TException,
+      NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param ifPurge
+   *          completely purge the table (skipping trash) while removing data from warehouse
+   * @see #dropTable(String, String, boolean, boolean)
+   */
+  public void dropTable(String dbname, String tableName, boolean deleteData,
+      boolean ignoreUnknownTab, boolean ifPurge) throws MetaException, TException,
+      NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  /**
+   * Drop the table in the DEFAULT database.
+   *
+   * @param tableName
+   *          The table to drop
+   * @param deleteData
+   *          Should we delete the underlying data
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           Could not drop table properly.
+   * @throws UnknownTableException
+   *           The table wasn't found.
+   * @throws TException
+   *           A thrift communication error occurred
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   *           The table wasn't found.
+   *
+   * @deprecated As of release 0.6.0 replaced by {@link #dropTable(String, String, boolean, boolean)}.
+   *             This method will be removed in release 0.7.0.
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  void dropTable(String tableName, boolean deleteData)
+      throws MetaException, UnknownTableException, TException, NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  /**
+   * @see #dropTable(String, String, boolean, boolean)
+   */
+  void dropTable(String dbname, String tableName)
+      throws MetaException, TException, NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  /**
+   * Truncate the table/partitions in the DEFAULT database.
+   * @param dbName
+   *          The db to which the table to be truncate belongs to
+   * @param tableName
+   *          The table to truncate
+   * @param partNames
+   *          List of partitions to truncate. NULL will truncate the whole table/all partitions
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   *           Could not truncate table properly.
+   */
+  void truncateTable(String dbName, String tableName, List<String> partNames) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Recycles the files recursively from the input path to the cmroot directory either by copying or moving it.
+   *
+   * @param request Inputs for path of the data files to be recycled to cmroot and
+   *                isPurge flag when set to true files which needs to be recycled are not moved to Trash
+   * @return Response which is currently void
+   */
+  CmRecycleResponse recycleDirToCmPath(CmRecycleRequest request) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  boolean tableExists(String databaseName, String tableName) throws MetaException,
+      TException, UnknownDBException;
+
+  /**
+   * Check to see if the specified table exists in the DEFAULT database.
+   * @param tableName
+   * @return TRUE if DEFAULT.tableName exists, FALSE otherwise.
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws UnknownDBException
+   * @deprecated As of release 0.6.0 replaced by {@link #tableExists(String, String)}.
+   *             This method will be removed in release 0.7.0.
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  boolean tableExists(String tableName) throws MetaException,
+      TException, UnknownDBException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get a table object from the DEFAULT database.
+   *
+   * @param tableName
+   *          Name of the table to fetch.
+   * @return An object representing the table.
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           Could not fetch the table
+   * @throws TException
+   *           A thrift communication error occurred
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   *           In case the table wasn't found.
+   * @deprecated As of release 0.6.0 replaced by {@link #getTable(String, String)}.
+   *             This method will be removed in release 0.7.0.
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  Table getTable(String tableName) throws MetaException, TException, NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get a Database Object
+   * @param databaseName  name of the database to fetch
+   * @return the database
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException The database does not exist
+   * @throws MetaException Could not fetch the database
+   * @throws TException A thrift communication error occurred
+   */
+  Database getDatabase(String databaseName)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+
+  /**
+   * Get a table object.
+   *
+   * @param dbName
+   *          The database the table is located in.
+   * @param tableName
+   *          Name of the table to fetch.
+   * @return An object representing the table.
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           Could not fetch the table
+   * @throws TException
+   *           A thrift communication error occurred
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   *           In case the table wasn't found.
+   */
+  Table getTable(String dbName, String tableName) throws MetaException,
+      TException, NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  /**
+   *
+   * @param dbName
+   *          The database the tables are located in.
+   * @param tableNames
+   *          The names of the tables to fetch
+   * @return A list of objects representing the tables.
+   *          Only the tables that can be retrieved from the database are returned.  For example,
+   *          if none of the requested tables could be retrieved, an empty list is returned.
+   *          There is no guarantee of ordering of the returned tables.
+   * @throws InvalidOperationException
+   *          The input to this operation is invalid (e.g., the list of tables names is null)
+   * @throws UnknownDBException
+   *          The requested database could not be fetched.
+   * @throws TException
+   *          A thrift communication error occurred
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *          Any other errors
+   */
+  List<Table> getTableObjectsByName(String dbName, List<String> tableNames)
+      throws MetaException, InvalidOperationException, UnknownDBException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param tableName
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param partVals
+   * @return the partition object
+   * @throws InvalidObjectException
+   * @throws AlreadyExistsException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @see org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore.Iface#append_partition(java.lang.String,
+   *      java.lang.String, java.util.List)
+   */
+  Partition appendPartition(String tableName, String dbName,
+      List<String> partVals) throws InvalidObjectException,
+      AlreadyExistsException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  Partition appendPartition(String tableName, String dbName, String name)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, AlreadyExistsException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Add a partition to the table.
+   *
+   * @param partition
+   *          The partition to add
+   * @return The partition added
+   * @throws InvalidObjectException
+   *           Could not find table to add to
+   * @throws AlreadyExistsException
+   *           Partition already exists
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           Could not add partition
+   * @throws TException
+   *           Thrift exception
+   */
+  Partition add_partition(Partition partition)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, AlreadyExistsException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Add partitions to the table.
+   *
+   * @param partitions
+   *          The partitions to add
+   * @throws InvalidObjectException
+   *           Could not find table to add to
+   * @throws AlreadyExistsException
+   *           Partition already exists
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           Could not add partition
+   * @throws TException
+   *           Thrift exception
+   */
+  int add_partitions(List<Partition> partitions)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, AlreadyExistsException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  int add_partitions_pspec(PartitionSpecProxy partitionSpec)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, AlreadyExistsException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Add partitions to the table.
+   *
+   * @param partitions The partitions to add
+   * @param ifNotExists only add partitions if they don't exist
+   * @param needResults Whether the results are needed
+   * @return the partitions that were added, or null if !needResults
+   */
+  List<Partition> add_partitions(
+      List<Partition> partitions, boolean ifNotExists, boolean needResults)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, AlreadyExistsException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param tblName
+   * @param partVals
+   * @return the partition object
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @see org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore.Iface#get_partition(java.lang.String,
+   *      java.lang.String, java.util.List)
+   */
+  Partition getPartition(String dbName, String tblName,
+      List<String> partVals) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param partitionSpecs
+   * @param sourceDb
+   * @param sourceTable
+   * @param destdb
+   * @param destTableName
+   * @return partition object
+   */
+  Partition exchange_partition(Map<String, String> partitionSpecs,
+      String sourceDb, String sourceTable, String destdb,
+      String destTableName) throws MetaException, NoSuchObjectException,
+      InvalidObjectException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * With the one partitionSpecs to exchange, multiple partitions could be exchanged.
+   * e.g., year=2015/month/day, exchanging partition year=2015 results to all the partitions
+   * belonging to it exchanged. This function returns the list of affected partitions.
+   * @param partitionSpecs
+   * @param sourceDb
+   * @param sourceTable
+   * @param destdb
+   * @param destTableName
+   * @return the list of the new partitions
+   */
+  List<Partition> exchange_partitions(Map<String, String> partitionSpecs,
+      String sourceDb, String sourceTable, String destdb,
+      String destTableName) throws MetaException, NoSuchObjectException,
+      InvalidObjectException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param tblName
+   * @param name - partition name i.e. 'ds=2010-02-03/ts=2010-02-03 18%3A16%3A01'
+   * @return the partition object
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @see org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore.Iface#get_partition(java.lang.String,
+   *      java.lang.String, java.util.List)
+   */
+  Partition getPartition(String dbName, String tblName,
+      String name) throws MetaException, UnknownTableException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+
+  /**
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param tableName
+   * @param pvals
+   * @param userName
+   * @param groupNames
+   * @return the partition
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws UnknownTableException
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  Partition getPartitionWithAuthInfo(String dbName, String tableName,
+      List<String> pvals, String userName, List<String> groupNames)
+      throws MetaException, UnknownTableException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param tbl_name
+   * @param db_name
+   * @param max_parts
+   * @return the list of partitions
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<Partition> listPartitions(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      short max_parts) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  public PartitionSpecProxy listPartitionSpecs(String dbName, String tableName, int maxParts)
+    throws TException;
+  List<Partition> listPartitions(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      List<String> part_vals, short max_parts) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  List<String> listPartitionNames(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      short max_parts) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  List<String> listPartitionNames(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      List<String> part_vals, short max_parts)
+      throws MetaException, TException, NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  public PartitionValuesResponse listPartitionValues(PartitionValuesRequest request)
+      throws MetaException, TException, NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get number of partitions matching specified filter
+   * @param dbName the database name
+   * @param tableName the table name
+   * @param filter the filter string,
+   *    for example "part1 = \"p1_abc\" and part2 &lt;= "\p2_test\"". Filtering can
+   *    be done only on string partition keys.
+   * @return number of partitions
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  public int getNumPartitionsByFilter(String dbName, String tableName,
+                                      String filter) throws MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+
+    /**
+   * Get list of partitions matching specified filter
+   * @param db_name the database name
+   * @param tbl_name the table name
+   * @param filter the filter string,
+   *    for example "part1 = \"p1_abc\" and part2 &lt;= "\p2_test\"". Filtering can
+   *    be done only on string partition keys.
+   * @param max_parts the maximum number of partitions to return,
+   *    all partitions are returned if -1 is passed
+   * @return list of partitions
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<Partition> listPartitionsByFilter(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      String filter, short max_parts) throws MetaException,
+         NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  PartitionSpecProxy listPartitionSpecsByFilter(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+                                                       String filter, int max_parts) throws MetaException,
+         NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get list of partitions matching specified serialized expression
+   * @param db_name the database name
+   * @param tbl_name the table name
+   * @param expr expression, serialized from ExprNodeDesc
+   * @param max_parts the maximum number of partitions to return,
+   *    all partitions are returned if -1 is passed
+   * @param default_partition_name Default partition name from configuration. If blank, the
+   *    metastore server-side configuration is used.
+   * @param result the resulting list of partitions
+   * @return whether the resulting list contains partitions which may or may not match the expr
+   */
+  boolean listPartitionsByExpr(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      byte[] expr, String default_partition_name, short max_parts, List<Partition> result)
+          throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param tableName
+   * @param s
+   * @param userName
+   * @param groupNames
+   * @return the list of partitions
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   */
+  List<Partition> listPartitionsWithAuthInfo(String dbName,
+      String tableName, short s, String userName, List<String> groupNames)
+      throws MetaException, TException, NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get partitions by a list of partition names.
+   * @param db_name database name
+   * @param tbl_name table name
+   * @param part_names list of partition names
+   * @return list of Partition objects
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<Partition> getPartitionsByNames(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      List<String> part_names) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param tableName
+   * @param partialPvals
+   * @param s
+   * @param userName
+   * @param groupNames
+   * @return the list of paritions
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   */
+  List<Partition> listPartitionsWithAuthInfo(String dbName,
+      String tableName, List<String> partialPvals, short s, String userName,
+      List<String> groupNames) throws MetaException, TException, NoSuchObjectException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param db_name
+   * @param tbl_name
+   * @param partKVs
+   * @param eventType
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws UnknownTableException
+   * @throws UnknownDBException
+   * @throws UnknownPartitionException
+   * @throws InvalidPartitionException
+   */
+  void markPartitionForEvent(String db_name, String tbl_name, Map<String,String> partKVs,
+      PartitionEventType eventType) throws MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException,
+      UnknownTableException, UnknownDBException, UnknownPartitionException, InvalidPartitionException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param db_name
+   * @param tbl_name
+   * @param partKVs
+   * @param eventType
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws UnknownTableException
+   * @throws UnknownDBException
+   * @throws UnknownPartitionException
+   * @throws InvalidPartitionException
+   */
+  boolean isPartitionMarkedForEvent(String db_name, String tbl_name, Map<String,String> partKVs,
+      PartitionEventType eventType) throws MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException,
+      UnknownTableException, UnknownDBException, UnknownPartitionException, InvalidPartitionException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param partVals
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   */
+  void validatePartitionNameCharacters(List<String> partVals) throws TException, MetaException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param tbl
+   * @throws AlreadyExistsException
+   * @throws InvalidObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @see org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore.Iface#create_table(org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table)
+   */
+
+  void createTable(Table tbl) throws AlreadyExistsException,
+      InvalidObjectException, MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  void alter_table(String defaultDatabaseName, String tblName,
+      Table table) throws InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Use alter_table_with_environmentContext instead of alter_table with cascade option
+   * passed in EnvironmentContext using {@code StatsSetupConst.CASCADE}
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  void alter_table(String defaultDatabaseName, String tblName, Table table,
+      boolean cascade) throws InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  //wrapper of alter_table_with_cascade
+  void alter_table_with_environmentContext(String defaultDatabaseName, String tblName, Table table,
+      EnvironmentContext environmentContext) throws InvalidOperationException, MetaException,
+      TException;
+
+  void createDatabase(Database db)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, AlreadyExistsException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void dropDatabase(String name)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void dropDatabase(String name, boolean deleteData, boolean ignoreUnknownDb)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void dropDatabase(String name, boolean deleteData, boolean ignoreUnknownDb, boolean cascade)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void alterDatabase(String name, Database db)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param db_name
+   * @param tbl_name
+   * @param part_vals
+   * @param deleteData
+   *          delete the underlying data or just delete the table in metadata
+   * @return true or false
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @see org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore.Iface#drop_partition(java.lang.String,
+   *      java.lang.String, java.util.List, boolean)
+   */
+  boolean dropPartition(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      List<String> part_vals, boolean deleteData) throws NoSuchObjectException,
+      MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Method to dropPartitions() with the option to purge the partition data directly,
+   * rather than to move data to trash.
+   * @param db_name Name of the database.
+   * @param tbl_name Name of the table.
+   * @param part_vals Specification of the partitions being dropped.
+   * @param options PartitionDropOptions for the operation.
+   * @return True (if partitions are dropped), else false.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  boolean dropPartition(String db_name, String tbl_name, List<String> part_vals,
+                        PartitionDropOptions options) throws TException;
+
+  List<Partition> dropPartitions(String dbName, String tblName,
+                                 List<ObjectPair<Integer, byte[]>> partExprs, boolean deleteData,
+                                 boolean ifExists) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  List<Partition> dropPartitions(String dbName, String tblName,
+      List<ObjectPair<Integer, byte[]>> partExprs, boolean deleteData,
+      boolean ifExists, boolean needResults) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Generalization of dropPartitions(),
+   * @param dbName Name of the database
+   * @param tblName Name of the table
+   * @param partExprs Partition-specification
+   * @param options Boolean options for dropping partitions
+   * @return List of Partitions dropped
+   * @throws TException On failure
+   */
+  List<Partition> dropPartitions(String dbName, String tblName,
+                                 List<ObjectPair<Integer, byte[]>> partExprs, PartitionDropOptions options) throws TException;
+
+  boolean dropPartition(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      String name, boolean deleteData) throws NoSuchObjectException,
+      MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * updates a partition to new partition
+   *
+   * @param dbName
+   *          database of the old partition
+   * @param tblName
+   *          table name of the old partition
+   * @param newPart
+   *          new partition
+   * @throws InvalidOperationException
+   *           if the old partition does not exist
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           if error in updating metadata
+   * @throws TException
+   *           if error in communicating with metastore server
+   */
+  void alter_partition(String dbName, String tblName, Partition newPart)
+      throws InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * updates a partition to new partition
+   *
+   * @param dbName
+   *          database of the old partition
+   * @param tblName
+   *          table name of the old partition
+   * @param newPart
+   *          new partition
+   * @throws InvalidOperationException
+   *           if the old partition does not exist
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           if error in updating metadata
+   * @throws TException
+   *           if error in communicating with metastore server
+   */
+  void alter_partition(String dbName, String tblName, Partition newPart, EnvironmentContext environmentContext)
+      throws InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * updates a list of partitions
+   *
+   * @param dbName
+   *          database of the old partition
+   * @param tblName
+   *          table name of the old partition
+   * @param newParts
+   *          list of partitions
+   * @throws InvalidOperationException
+   *           if the old partition does not exist
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           if error in updating metadata
+   * @throws TException
+   *           if error in communicating with metastore server
+   */
+  void alter_partitions(String dbName, String tblName, List<Partition> newParts)
+      throws InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * updates a list of partitions
+   *
+   * @param dbName
+   *          database of the old partition
+   * @param tblName
+   *          table name of the old partition
+   * @param newParts
+   *          list of partitions
+   * @param environmentContext 
+   * @throws InvalidOperationException
+   *           if the old partition does not exist
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *           if error in updating metadata
+   * @throws TException
+   *           if error in communicating with metastore server
+   */
+  void alter_partitions(String dbName, String tblName, List<Partition> newParts,
+      EnvironmentContext environmentContext)
+      throws InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * rename a partition to a new partition
+   *
+   * @param dbname
+   *          database of the old partition
+   * @param name
+   *          table name of the old partition
+   * @param part_vals
+   *          values of the old partition
+   * @param newPart
+   *          new partition
+   * @throws InvalidOperationException
+   *           if srcFs and destFs are different
+   * @throws MetaException
+   *          if error in updating metadata
+   * @throws TException
+   *          if error in communicating with metastore server
+   */
+  void renamePartition(final String dbname, final String name, final List<String> part_vals, final Partition newPart)
+      throws InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param db
+   * @param tableName
+   * @throws UnknownTableException
+   * @throws UnknownDBException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @see org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore.Iface#get_fields(java.lang.String,
+   *      java.lang.String)
+   */
+  List<FieldSchema> getFields(String db, String tableName)
+      throws MetaException, TException, UnknownTableException,
+      UnknownDBException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param db
+   * @param tableName
+   * @throws UnknownTableException
+   * @throws UnknownDBException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @see org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore.Iface#get_schema(java.lang.String,
+   *      java.lang.String)
+   */
+  List<FieldSchema> getSchema(String db, String tableName)
+      throws MetaException, TException, UnknownTableException,
+      UnknownDBException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param name
+   *          name of the configuration property to get the value of
+   * @param defaultValue
+   *          the value to return if property with the given name doesn't exist
+   * @return value of the specified configuration property
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws ConfigValSecurityException
+   */
+  String getConfigValue(String name, String defaultValue)
+      throws TException, ConfigValSecurityException;
+
+  /**
+   *
+   * @param name
+   *          the partition name e.g. ("ds=2010-03-03/hr=12")
+   * @return a list containing the partition col values, in the same order as the name
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<String> partitionNameToVals(String name)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+  /**
+   *
+   * @param name
+   *          the partition name e.g. ("ds=2010-03-03/hr=12")
+   * @return a map from the partition col to the value, as listed in the name
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  Map<String, String> partitionNameToSpec(String name)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * create an index
+   * @param index the index object
+   * @throws InvalidObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws AlreadyExistsException
+   */
+  void createIndex(Index index, Table indexTable) throws InvalidObjectException,
+      MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException, AlreadyExistsException;
+
+  void alter_index(String dbName, String tblName, String indexName,
+      Index index) throws InvalidOperationException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   *
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param tblName
+   * @param indexName
+   * @return the index
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws UnknownTableException
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  Index getIndex(String dbName, String tblName, String indexName)
+      throws MetaException, UnknownTableException, NoSuchObjectException,
+      TException;
+
+
+  /**
+   * list indexes of the give base table
+   * @param db_name
+   * @param tbl_name
+   * @param max
+   * @return the list of indexes
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<Index> listIndexes(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      short max) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * list all the index names of the give base table.
+   *
+   * @param db_name
+   * @param tbl_name
+   * @param max
+   * @return the list of names
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<String> listIndexNames(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      short max) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param db_name
+   * @param tbl_name
+   * @param name index name
+   * @param deleteData
+   * @return true on success
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  boolean dropIndex(String db_name, String tbl_name,
+      String name, boolean deleteData) throws NoSuchObjectException,
+      MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Write table level column statistics to persistent store
+   * @param statsObj
+   * @return boolean indicating the status of the operation
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws InvalidObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws InvalidInputException
+   */
+
+  boolean updateTableColumnStatistics(ColumnStatistics statsObj)
+    throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException,
+    InvalidInputException;
+
+  /**
+   * Write partition level column statistics to persistent store
+   * @param statsObj
+   * @return boolean indicating the status of the operation
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws InvalidObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws InvalidInputException
+   */
+
+  boolean updatePartitionColumnStatistics(ColumnStatistics statsObj)
+   throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException,
+   InvalidInputException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get table column statistics given dbName, tableName and multiple colName-s
+   * @return ColumnStatistics struct for a given db, table and columns
+   */
+  List<ColumnStatisticsObj> getTableColumnStatistics(String dbName, String tableName,
+      List<String> colNames) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get partitions column statistics given dbName, tableName, multiple partitions and colName-s
+   * @return ColumnStatistics struct for a given db, table and columns
+   */
+  Map<String, List<ColumnStatisticsObj>> getPartitionColumnStatistics(String dbName,
+      String tableName,  List<String> partNames, List<String> colNames)
+          throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Delete partition level column statistics given dbName, tableName, partName and colName
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param tableName
+   * @param partName
+   * @param colName
+   * @return boolean indicating outcome of the operation
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws InvalidObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws InvalidInputException
+   */
+
+  boolean deletePartitionColumnStatistics(String dbName, String tableName,
+    String partName, String colName) throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException,
+    InvalidObjectException, TException, InvalidInputException;
+
+  /**
+   * Delete table level column statistics given dbName, tableName and colName
+   * @param dbName
+   * @param tableName
+   * @param colName
+   * @return boolean indicating the outcome of the operation
+   * @throws NoSuchObjectException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws InvalidObjectException
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws InvalidInputException
+   */
+   boolean deleteTableColumnStatistics(String dbName, String tableName, String colName) throws
+    NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, InvalidObjectException, TException, InvalidInputException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param role
+   *          role object
+   * @return true on success
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  boolean create_role(Role role)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param role_name
+   *          role name
+   *
+   * @return true on success
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  boolean drop_role(String role_name) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * list all role names
+   * @return list of names
+   * @throws TException
+   * @throws MetaException
+   */
+  List<String> listRoleNames() throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   *
+   * @param role_name
+   * @param user_name
+   * @param principalType
+   * @param grantor
+   * @param grantorType
+   * @param grantOption
+   * @return true on success
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  boolean grant_role(String role_name, String user_name,
+      PrincipalType principalType, String grantor, PrincipalType grantorType,
+      boolean grantOption) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param role_name
+   *          role name
+   * @param user_name
+   *          user name
+   * @param principalType
+   *
+   * @return true on success
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  boolean revoke_role(String role_name, String user_name,
+      PrincipalType principalType, boolean grantOption) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   *
+   * @param principalName
+   * @param principalType
+   * @return list of roles
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<Role> list_roles(String principalName, PrincipalType principalType)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Return the privileges that the user, group have directly and indirectly through roles
+   * on the given hiveObject
+   * @param hiveObject
+   * @param user_name
+   * @param group_names
+   * @return the privilege set
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  PrincipalPrivilegeSet get_privilege_set(HiveObjectRef hiveObject,
+      String user_name, List<String> group_names) throws MetaException,
+      TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Return the privileges that this principal has directly over the object (not through roles).
+   * @param principal_name
+   * @param principal_type
+   * @param hiveObject
+   * @return list of privileges
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  List<HiveObjectPrivilege> list_privileges(String principal_name,
+      PrincipalType principal_type, HiveObjectRef hiveObject)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param privileges
+   * @return true on success
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  boolean grant_privileges(PrivilegeBag privileges)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param privileges
+   * @return true on success
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  boolean revoke_privileges(PrivilegeBag privileges, boolean grantOption)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * This is expected to be a no-op when in local mode,
+   * which means that the implementation will return null.
+   * @param owner the intended owner for the token
+   * @param renewerKerberosPrincipalName
+   * @return the string of the token
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  String getDelegationToken(String owner, String renewerKerberosPrincipalName)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param tokenStrForm
+   * @return the new expiration time
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  long renewDelegationToken(String tokenStrForm) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @param tokenStrForm
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  void cancelDelegationToken(String tokenStrForm) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  String getTokenStrForm() throws IOException;
+
+  boolean addToken(String tokenIdentifier, String delegationToken) throws TException;
+
+  boolean removeToken(String tokenIdentifier) throws TException;
+
+  String getToken(String tokenIdentifier) throws TException;
+
+  List<String> getAllTokenIdentifiers() throws TException;
+
+  int addMasterKey(String key) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  void updateMasterKey(Integer seqNo, String key)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  boolean removeMasterKey(Integer keySeq) throws TException;
+
+  String[] getMasterKeys() throws TException;
+
+  void createFunction(Function func)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void alterFunction(String dbName, String funcName, Function newFunction)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void dropFunction(String dbName, String funcName) throws MetaException,
+      NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, InvalidInputException, TException;
+
+  Function getFunction(String dbName, String funcName)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  List<String> getFunctions(String dbName, String pattern)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  GetAllFunctionsResponse getAllFunctions()
+          throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get a structure that details valid transactions.
+   * @return list of valid transactions
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  ValidTxnList getValidTxns() throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get a structure that details valid transactions.
+   * @param currentTxn The current transaction of the caller.  This will be removed from the
+   *                   exceptions list so that the caller sees records from his own transaction.
+   * @return list of valid transactions
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  ValidTxnList getValidTxns(long currentTxn) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Initiate a transaction.
+   * @param user User who is opening this transaction.  This is the Hive user,
+   *             not necessarily the OS user.  It is assumed that this user has already been
+   *             authenticated and authorized at this point.
+   * @return transaction identifier
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  long openTxn(String user) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Initiate a batch of transactions.  It is not guaranteed that the
+   * requested number of transactions will be instantiated.  The system has a
+   * maximum number instantiated per request, controlled by hive.txn.max
+   * .batch.open in hive-site.xml.  If the user requests more than this
+   * value, only the configured max will be returned.
+   *
+   * <p>Increasing the number of transactions requested in the batch will
+   * allow applications that stream data into Hive to place more commits in a
+   * single file, thus reducing load on the namenode and making reads of the
+   * data more efficient.  However, opening more transactions in a batch will
+   * also result in readers needing to keep a larger list of open
+   * transactions to ignore, potentially slowing their reads.  Users will
+   * need to test in their system to understand the optimal number of
+   * transactions to request in a batch.
+   * </p>
+   * @param user User who is opening this transaction.  This is the Hive user,
+   *             not necessarily the OS user.  It is assumed that this user has already been
+   *             authenticated and authorized at this point.
+   * @param numTxns number of requested transactions to open
+   * @return list of opened txn ids.  As noted above, this may be less than
+   * requested, so the user should check how many were returned rather than
+   * optimistically assuming that the result matches the request.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  OpenTxnsResponse openTxns(String user, int numTxns) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Rollback a transaction.  This will also unlock any locks associated with
+   * this transaction.
+   * @param txnid id of transaction to be rolled back.
+   * @throws NoSuchTxnException if the requested transaction does not exist.
+   * Note that this can result from the transaction having timed out and been
+   * deleted.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  void rollbackTxn(long txnid) throws NoSuchTxnException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Commit a transaction.  This will also unlock any locks associated with
+   * this transaction.
+   * @param txnid id of transaction to be committed.
+   * @throws NoSuchTxnException if the requested transaction does not exist.
+   * This can result fro the transaction having timed out and been deleted by
+   * the compactor.
+   * @throws TxnAbortedException if the requested transaction has been
+   * aborted.  This can result from the transaction timing out.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  void commitTxn(long txnid)
+      throws NoSuchTxnException, TxnAbortedException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Abort a list of transactions. This is for use by "ABORT TRANSACTIONS" in the grammar.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  void abortTxns(List<Long> txnids) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Show the list of currently open transactions.  This is for use by "show transactions" in the
+   * grammar, not for applications that want to find a list of current transactions to work with.
+   * Those wishing the latter should call {@link #getValidTxns()}.
+   * @return List of currently opened transactions, included aborted ones.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  GetOpenTxnsInfoResponse showTxns() throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Request a set of locks.  All locks needed for a particular query, DML,
+   * or DDL operation should be batched together and requested in one lock
+   * call.  This avoids deadlocks.  It also avoids blocking other users who
+   * only require some of the locks required by this user.
+   *
+   * <p>If the operation requires a transaction (INSERT, UPDATE,
+   * or DELETE) that transaction id must be provided as part this lock
+   * request.  All locks associated with a transaction will be released when
+   * that transaction is committed or rolled back.</p>
+   * *
+   * <p>Once a lock is acquired, {@link #heartbeat(long, long)} must be called
+   * on a regular basis to avoid the lock being timed out by the system.</p>
+   * @param request The lock request.  {@link LockRequestBuilder} can be used
+   *                construct this request.
+   * @return a lock response, which will provide two things,
+   * the id of the lock (to be used in all further calls regarding this lock)
+   * as well as a state of the lock.  If the state is ACQUIRED then the user
+   * can proceed.  If it is WAITING the user should wait and call
+   * {@link #checkLock(long)} before proceeding.  All components of the lock
+   * will have the same state.
+   * @throws NoSuchTxnException if the requested transaction does not exist.
+   * This can result fro the transaction having timed out and been deleted by
+   * the compactor.
+   * @throws TxnAbortedException if the requested transaction has been
+   * aborted.  This can result from the transaction timing out.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  @RetrySemantics.CannotRetry
+  LockResponse lock(LockRequest request)
+      throws NoSuchTxnException, TxnAbortedException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Check the status of a set of locks requested via a
+   * {@link #lock(org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.LockRequest)} call.
+   * Once a lock is acquired, {@link #heartbeat(long, long)} must be called
+   * on a regular basis to avoid the lock being timed out by the system.
+   * @param lockid lock id returned by lock().
+   * @return a lock response, which will provide two things,
+   * the id of the lock (to be used in all further calls regarding this lock)
+   * as well as a state of the lock.  If the state is ACQUIRED then the user
+   * can proceed.  If it is WAITING the user should wait and call
+   * this method again before proceeding.  All components of the lock
+   * will have the same state.
+   * @throws NoSuchTxnException if the requested transaction does not exist.
+   * This can result fro the transaction having timed out and been deleted by
+   * the compactor.
+   * @throws TxnAbortedException if the requested transaction has been
+   * aborted.  This can result from the transaction timing out.
+   * @throws NoSuchLockException if the requested lockid does not exist.
+   * This can result from the lock timing out and being unlocked by the system.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  LockResponse checkLock(long lockid)
+    throws NoSuchTxnException, TxnAbortedException, NoSuchLockException,
+      TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Unlock a set of locks.  This can only be called when the locks are not
+   * assocaited with a transaction.
+   * @param lockid lock id returned by
+   * {@link #lock(org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.LockRequest)}
+   * @throws NoSuchLockException if the requested lockid does not exist.
+   * This can result from the lock timing out and being unlocked by the system.
+   * @throws TxnOpenException if the locks are are associated with a
+   * transaction.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  void unlock(long lockid)
+      throws NoSuchLockException, TxnOpenException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Show all currently held and waiting locks.
+   * @return List of currently held and waiting locks.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  ShowLocksResponse showLocks() throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Show all currently held and waiting locks.
+   * @param showLocksRequest SHOW LOCK request
+   * @return List of currently held and waiting locks.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  ShowLocksResponse showLocks(ShowLocksRequest showLocksRequest) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Send a heartbeat to indicate that the client holding these locks (if
+   * any) and that opened this transaction (if one exists) is still alive.
+   * The default timeout for transactions and locks is 300 seconds,
+   * though it is configurable.  To determine how often to heartbeat you will
+   * need to ask your system administrator how the metastore thrift service
+   * has been configured.
+   * @param txnid the id of the open transaction.  If no transaction is open
+   *              (it is a DDL or query) then this can be set to 0.
+   * @param lockid the id of the locks obtained.  If no locks have been
+   *               obtained then this can be set to 0.
+   * @throws NoSuchTxnException if the requested transaction does not exist.
+   * This can result fro the transaction having timed out and been deleted by
+   * the compactor.
+   * @throws TxnAbortedException if the requested transaction has been
+   * aborted.  This can result from the transaction timing out.
+   * @throws NoSuchLockException if the requested lockid does not exist.
+   * This can result from the lock timing out and being unlocked by the system.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  void heartbeat(long txnid, long lockid)
+    throws NoSuchLockException, NoSuchTxnException, TxnAbortedException,
+      TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Send heartbeats for a range of transactions.  This is for the streaming ingest client that
+   * will have many transactions open at once.  Everyone else should use
+   * {@link #heartbeat(long, long)}.
+   * @param min minimum transaction id to heartbeat, inclusive
+   * @param max maximum transaction id to heartbeat, inclusive
+   * @return a pair of lists that tell which transactions in the list did not exist (they may
+   * have already been closed) and which were aborted.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  HeartbeatTxnRangeResponse heartbeatTxnRange(long min, long max) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Send a request to compact a table or partition.  This will not block until the compaction is
+   * complete.  It will instead put a request on the queue for that table or partition to be
+   * compacted.  No checking is done on the dbname, tableName, or partitionName to make sure they
+   * refer to valid objects.  It is assumed this has already been done by the caller.
+   * @param dbname Name of the database the table is in.  If null, this will be assumed to be
+   *               'default'.
+   * @param tableName Name of the table to be compacted.  This cannot be null.  If partitionName
+   *                  is null, this must be a non-partitioned table.
+   * @param partitionName Name of the partition to be compacted
+   * @param type Whether this is a major or minor compaction.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  void compact(String dbname, String tableName, String partitionName,  CompactionType type)
+      throws TException;
+  @Deprecated
+  void compact(String dbname, String tableName, String partitionName, CompactionType type,
+               Map<String, String> tblproperties) throws TException;
+  /**
+   * Send a request to compact a table or partition.  This will not block until the compaction is
+   * complete.  It will instead put a request on the queue for that table or partition to be
+   * compacted.  No checking is done on the dbname, tableName, or partitionName to make sure they
+   * refer to valid objects.  It is assumed this has already been done by the caller.  At most one
+   * Compaction can be scheduled/running for any given resource at a time.
+   * @param dbname Name of the database the table is in.  If null, this will be assumed to be
+   *               'default'.
+   * @param tableName Name of the table to be compacted.  This cannot be null.  If partitionName
+   *                  is null, this must be a non-partitioned table.
+   * @param partitionName Name of the partition to be compacted
+   * @param type Whether this is a major or minor compaction.
+   * @param tblproperties the list of tblproperties to override for this compact. Can be null.
+   * @return id of newly scheduled compaction or id/state of one which is already scheduled/running
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  CompactionResponse compact2(String dbname, String tableName, String partitionName, CompactionType type,
+                              Map<String, String> tblproperties) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get a list of all compactions.
+   * @return List of all current compactions.  This includes compactions waiting to happen,
+   * in progress, and finished but waiting to clean the existing files.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  ShowCompactResponse showCompactions() throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * @deprecated in Hive 1.3.0/2.1.0 - will be removed in 2 releases
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  void addDynamicPartitions(long txnId, String dbName, String tableName, List<String> partNames)
+    throws TException;
+  /**
+   * Send a list of partitions to the metastore to indicate which partitions were loaded
+   * dynamically.
+   * @param txnId id of the transaction
+   * @param dbName database name
+   * @param tableName table name
+   * @param partNames partition name, as constructed by Warehouse.makePartName
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  void addDynamicPartitions(long txnId, String dbName, String tableName, List<String> partNames,
+                            DataOperationType operationType)
+    throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Performs the commit/rollback to the metadata storage for insert operator from external storage handler.
+   * @param table table name
+   * @param overwrite true if the insert is overwrite
+   *
+   * @throws MetaException
+   */
+  void insertTable(Table table, boolean overwrite) throws MetaException;
+
+  /**
+   * A filter provided by the client that determines if a given notification event should be
+   * returned.
+   */
+  @InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HCatalog"})
+  interface NotificationFilter {
+    /**
+     * Whether a notification event should be accepted
+     * @param event
+     * @return if true, event will be added to list, if false it will be ignored
+     */
+    boolean accept(NotificationEvent event);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Get the next set of notifications from the database.
+   * @param lastEventId The last event id that was consumed by this reader.  The returned
+   *                    notifications will start at the next eventId available after this eventId.
+   * @param maxEvents Maximum number of events to return.  If &lt; 1, then all available events will
+   *                  be returned.
+   * @param filter User provided filter to remove unwanted events.  If null, all events will be
+   *               returned.
+   * @return list of notifications, sorted by eventId.  It is guaranteed that the events are in
+   * the order that the operations were done on the database.
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  @InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HCatalog"})
+  NotificationEventResponse getNextNotification(long lastEventId, int maxEvents,
+                                                NotificationFilter filter) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get the last used notification event id.
+   * @return last used id
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  @InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HCatalog"})
+  CurrentNotificationEventId getCurrentNotificationEventId() throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Get the number of events from given eventID for the input database.
+   * @return number of events
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  @InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"HCatalog"})
+  NotificationEventsCountResponse getNotificationEventsCount(NotificationEventsCountRequest rqst)
+          throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Request that the metastore fire an event.  Currently this is only supported for DML
+   * operations, since the metastore knows when DDL operations happen.
+   * @param request
+   * @return response, type depends on type of request
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+
+  @InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"Apache Hive, HCatalog"})
+  FireEventResponse fireListenerEvent(FireEventRequest request) throws TException;
+
+  class IncompatibleMetastoreException extends MetaException {
+    IncompatibleMetastoreException(String message) {
+      super(message);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * get all role-grants for users/roles that have been granted the given role
+   * Note that in the returned list of RolePrincipalGrants, the roleName is
+   * redundant as it would match the role_name argument of this function
+   * @param getPrincRoleReq
+   * @return
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  GetPrincipalsInRoleResponse get_principals_in_role(GetPrincipalsInRoleRequest getPrincRoleReq)
+      throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * get all role-grants for roles that have been granted to given principal
+   * Note that in the returned list of RolePrincipalGrants, the principal information
+   * redundant as it would match the principal information in request
+   * @param getRolePrincReq
+   * @return
+   * @throws MetaException
+   * @throws TException
+   */
+  GetRoleGrantsForPrincipalResponse get_role_grants_for_principal(
+      GetRoleGrantsForPrincipalRequest getRolePrincReq) throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  public AggrStats getAggrColStatsFor(String dbName, String tblName,
+      List<String> colNames, List<String> partName)  throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  boolean setPartitionColumnStatistics(SetPartitionsStatsRequest request) throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException, InvalidInputException;
+
+  /**
+   * Flush any catalog objects held by the metastore implementation.  Note that this does not
+   * flush statistics objects.  This should be called at the beginning of each query.
+   */
+  void flushCache();
+
+  /**
+   * Gets file metadata, as cached by metastore, for respective file IDs.
+   * The metadata that is not cached in metastore may be missing.
+   */
+  Iterable<Entry<Long, ByteBuffer>> getFileMetadata(List<Long> fileIds) throws TException;
+
+  Iterable<Entry<Long, MetadataPpdResult>> getFileMetadataBySarg(
+      List<Long> fileIds, ByteBuffer sarg, boolean doGetFooters) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Cleares the file metadata cache for respective file IDs.
+   */
+  void clearFileMetadata(List<Long> fileIds) throws TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Adds file metadata for respective file IDs to metadata cache in metastore.
+   */
+  void putFileMetadata(List<Long> fileIds, List<ByteBuffer> metadata) throws TException;
+
+  boolean isSameConfObj(Configuration c);
+
+  boolean cacheFileMetadata(String dbName, String tableName, String partName,
+      boolean allParts) throws TException;
+
+  List<SQLPrimaryKey> getPrimaryKeys(PrimaryKeysRequest request)
+    throws MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  List<SQLForeignKey> getForeignKeys(ForeignKeysRequest request) throws MetaException,
+    NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  List<SQLUniqueConstraint> getUniqueConstraints(UniqueConstraintsRequest request) throws MetaException,
+    NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  List<SQLNotNullConstraint> getNotNullConstraints(NotNullConstraintsRequest request) throws MetaException,
+    NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  void createTableWithConstraints(
+    org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table tTbl,
+    List<SQLPrimaryKey> primaryKeys, List<SQLForeignKey> foreignKeys,
+    List<SQLUniqueConstraint> uniqueConstraints,
+    List<SQLNotNullConstraint> notNullConstraints)
+    throws AlreadyExistsException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  void dropConstraint(String dbName, String tableName, String constraintName) throws
+    MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  void addPrimaryKey(List<SQLPrimaryKey> primaryKeyCols) throws
+  MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  void addForeignKey(List<SQLForeignKey> foreignKeyCols) throws
+  MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  void addUniqueConstraint(List<SQLUniqueConstraint> uniqueConstraintCols) throws
+  MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  void addNotNullConstraint(List<SQLNotNullConstraint> notNullConstraintCols) throws
+  MetaException, NoSuchObjectException, TException;
+
+  /**
+   * Gets the unique id of the backing database instance used for storing metadata
+   * @return unique id of the backing database instance
+   * @throws MetaException if HMS is not able to fetch the UUID or if there are multiple UUIDs found in the database
+   * @throws TException in case of Thrift errors
+   */
+  String getMetastoreDbUuid() throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  void createResourcePlan(WMResourcePlan resourcePlan)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  WMResourcePlan getResourcePlan(String resourcePlanName)
+    throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  List<WMResourcePlan> getAllResourcePlans()
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void dropResourcePlan(String resourcePlanName)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  WMFullResourcePlan alterResourcePlan(String resourcePlanName, WMResourcePlan resourcePlan,
+      boolean canActivateDisabled)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  WMFullResourcePlan getActiveResourcePlan() throws MetaException, TException;
+
+  List<String> validateResourcePlan(String resourcePlanName)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void createWMTrigger(WMTrigger trigger)
+      throws InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void alterWMTrigger(WMTrigger trigger)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void dropWMTrigger(String resourcePlanName, String triggerName)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  List<WMTrigger> getTriggersForResourcePlan(String resourcePlan)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void createWMPool(WMPool pool)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void alterWMPool(WMPool pool, String poolPath)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void dropWMPool(String resourcePlanName, String poolPath)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void createOrUpdateWMMapping(WMMapping mapping, boolean isUpdate)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void dropWMMapping(WMMapping mapping)
+      throws NoSuchObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+
+  void createOrDropTriggerToPoolMapping(String resourcePlanName, String triggerName,
+      String poolPath, boolean shouldDrop) throws AlreadyExistsException, NoSuchObjectException,
+      InvalidObjectException, MetaException, TException;
+}

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diff --git a/standalone-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/RawStoreProxy.java b/standalone-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/RawStoreProxy.java
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--- a/standalone-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/RawStoreProxy.java
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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public class RawStoreProxy implements InvocationHandler {
   private void init() throws MetaException {
     // Using the hook on startup ensures that the hook always has priority
     // over settings in *.xml.  The thread local conf needs to be used because at this point
-    // it has already been initialized using hiveConf.
+    // it has already been initialized using conf.
     MetaStoreInit.updateConnectionURL(hiveConf, getConf(), null, metaStoreInitData);
   }
 

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@@ -0,0 +1,341 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
+import java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException;
+import java.security.PrivilegedActionException;
+import java.security.PrivilegedExceptionAction;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.classification.RetrySemantics;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.conf.MetastoreConf;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.conf.MetastoreConf.ConfVars;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.utils.JavaUtils;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.annotation.NoReconnect;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.MetaException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
+import org.apache.thrift.TApplicationException;
+import org.apache.thrift.TException;
+import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolException;
+import org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+
+/**
+ * RetryingMetaStoreClient. Creates a proxy for a IMetaStoreClient
+ * implementation and retries calls to it on failure.
+ * If the login user is authenticated using keytab, it relogins user before
+ * each call.
+ *
+ */
+@InterfaceAudience.Public
+public class RetryingMetaStoreClient implements InvocationHandler {
+
+  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RetryingMetaStoreClient.class.getName());
+
+  private final IMetaStoreClient base;
+  private final UserGroupInformation ugi;
+  private final int retryLimit;
+  private final long retryDelaySeconds;
+  private final ConcurrentHashMap<String, Long> metaCallTimeMap;
+  private final long connectionLifeTimeInMillis;
+  private long lastConnectionTime;
+  private boolean localMetaStore;
+
+
+  protected RetryingMetaStoreClient(Configuration conf, Class<?>[] constructorArgTypes,
+                                    Object[] constructorArgs, ConcurrentHashMap<String, Long> metaCallTimeMap,
+                                    Class<? extends IMetaStoreClient> msClientClass) throws MetaException {
+
+    this.ugi = getUGI();
+
+    if (this.ugi == null) {
+      LOG.warn("RetryingMetaStoreClient unable to determine current user UGI.");
+    }
+
+    this.retryLimit = MetastoreConf.getIntVar(conf, ConfVars.THRIFT_FAILURE_RETRIES);
+    this.retryDelaySeconds = MetastoreConf.getTimeVar(conf,
+        ConfVars.CLIENT_CONNECT_RETRY_DELAY, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+    this.metaCallTimeMap = metaCallTimeMap;
+    this.connectionLifeTimeInMillis = MetastoreConf.getTimeVar(conf,
+        ConfVars.CLIENT_SOCKET_LIFETIME, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
+    this.lastConnectionTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+    String msUri = MetastoreConf.getVar(conf, ConfVars.THRIFT_URIS);
+    localMetaStore = (msUri == null) || msUri.trim().isEmpty();
+
+    reloginExpiringKeytabUser();
+
+    this.base = JavaUtils.newInstance(msClientClass, constructorArgTypes, constructorArgs);
+
+    LOG.info("RetryingMetaStoreClient proxy=" + msClientClass + " ugi=" + this.ugi
+        + " retries=" + this.retryLimit + " delay=" + this.retryDelaySeconds
+        + " lifetime=" + this.connectionLifeTimeInMillis);
+  }
+
+  public static IMetaStoreClient getProxy(
+      Configuration hiveConf, boolean allowEmbedded) throws MetaException {
+    return getProxy(hiveConf, new Class[]{Configuration.class, HiveMetaHookLoader.class, Boolean.class},
+        new Object[]{hiveConf, null, allowEmbedded}, null, HiveMetaStoreClient.class.getName()
+    );
+  }
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  public static IMetaStoreClient getProxy(Configuration hiveConf, HiveMetaHookLoader hookLoader,
+      String mscClassName) throws MetaException {
+    return getProxy(hiveConf, hookLoader, null, mscClassName, true);
+  }
+
+  public static IMetaStoreClient getProxy(Configuration hiveConf, HiveMetaHookLoader hookLoader,
+      ConcurrentHashMap<String, Long> metaCallTimeMap, String mscClassName, boolean allowEmbedded)
+          throws MetaException {
+
+    return getProxy(hiveConf,
+        new Class[] {Configuration.class, HiveMetaHookLoader.class, Boolean.class},
+        new Object[] {hiveConf, hookLoader, allowEmbedded},
+        metaCallTimeMap,
+        mscClassName
+    );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * This constructor is meant for Hive internal use only.
+   * Please use getProxy(HiveConf conf, HiveMetaHookLoader hookLoader) for external purpose.
+   */
+  public static IMetaStoreClient getProxy(Configuration hiveConf, Class<?>[] constructorArgTypes,
+      Object[] constructorArgs, String mscClassName) throws MetaException {
+    return getProxy(hiveConf, constructorArgTypes, constructorArgs, null, mscClassName);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * This constructor is meant for Hive internal use only.
+   * Please use getProxy(HiveConf conf, HiveMetaHookLoader hookLoader) for external purpose.
+   */
+  public static IMetaStoreClient getProxy(Configuration hiveConf, Class<?>[] constructorArgTypes,
+      Object[] constructorArgs, ConcurrentHashMap<String, Long> metaCallTimeMap,
+      String mscClassName) throws MetaException {
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    Class<? extends IMetaStoreClient> baseClass =
+        JavaUtils.getClass(mscClassName, IMetaStoreClient.class);
+
+    RetryingMetaStoreClient handler =
+        new RetryingMetaStoreClient(hiveConf, constructorArgTypes, constructorArgs,
+            metaCallTimeMap, baseClass);
+    return (IMetaStoreClient) Proxy.newProxyInstance(
+        RetryingMetaStoreClient.class.getClassLoader(), baseClass.getInterfaces(), handler);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args) throws Throwable {
+    Object ret;
+    int retriesMade = 0;
+    TException caughtException;
+
+    boolean allowReconnect = ! method.isAnnotationPresent(NoReconnect.class);
+    boolean allowRetry = true;
+    Annotation[] directives = method.getDeclaredAnnotations();
+    if(directives != null) {
+      for(Annotation a : directives) {
+        if(a instanceof RetrySemantics.CannotRetry) {
+          allowRetry = false;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    while (true) {
+      try {
+        reloginExpiringKeytabUser();
+
+        if (allowReconnect) {
+          if (retriesMade > 0 || hasConnectionLifeTimeReached(method)) {
+            if (this.ugi != null) {
+              // Perform reconnect with the proper user context
+              try {
+                LOG.info("RetryingMetaStoreClient trying reconnect as " + this.ugi);
+
+                this.ugi.doAs(
+                  new PrivilegedExceptionAction<Object> () {
+                    @Override
+                    public Object run() throws MetaException {
+                      base.reconnect();
+                      return null;
+                    }
+                  });
+              } catch (UndeclaredThrowableException e) {
+                Throwable te = e.getCause();
+                if (te instanceof PrivilegedActionException) {
+                  throw te.getCause();
+                } else {
+                  throw te;
+                }
+              }
+              lastConnectionTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+            } else {
+              LOG.warn("RetryingMetaStoreClient unable to reconnect. No UGI information.");
+              throw new MetaException("UGI information unavailable. Will not attempt a reconnect.");
+            }
+          }
+        }
+
+        if (metaCallTimeMap == null) {
+          ret = method.invoke(base, args);
+        } else {
+          // need to capture the timing
+          long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+          ret = method.invoke(base, args);
+          long timeTaken = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;
+          addMethodTime(method, timeTaken);
+        }
+        break;
+      } catch (UndeclaredThrowableException e) {
+        throw e.getCause();
+      } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+        Throwable t = e.getCause();
+        if (t instanceof TApplicationException) {
+          TApplicationException tae = (TApplicationException)t;
+          switch (tae.getType()) {
+          case TApplicationException.UNSUPPORTED_CLIENT_TYPE:
+          case TApplicationException.UNKNOWN_METHOD:
+          case TApplicationException.WRONG_METHOD_NAME:
+          case TApplicationException.INVALID_PROTOCOL:
+            throw t;
+          default:
+            // TODO: most other options are probably unrecoverable... throw?
+            caughtException = tae;
+          }
+        } else if ((t instanceof TProtocolException) || (t instanceof TTransportException)) {
+          // TODO: most protocol exceptions are probably unrecoverable... throw?
+          caughtException = (TException)t;
+        } else if ((t instanceof MetaException) && t.getMessage().matches(
+            "(?s).*(JDO[a-zA-Z]*|TProtocol|TTransport)Exception.*") &&
+            !t.getMessage().contains("java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException")) {
+          caughtException = (MetaException)t;
+        } else {
+          throw t;
+        }
+      } catch (MetaException e) {
+        if (e.getMessage().matches("(?s).*(IO|TTransport)Exception.*") &&
+            !e.getMessage().contains("java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException")) {
+          caughtException = e;
+        } else {
+          throw e;
+        }
+      }
+
+
+      if (retriesMade >= retryLimit || base.isLocalMetaStore() || !allowRetry) {
+        throw caughtException;
+      }
+      retriesMade++;
+      LOG.warn("MetaStoreClient lost connection. Attempting to reconnect (" + retriesMade + " of " +
+          retryLimit + ") after " + retryDelaySeconds + "s. " + method.getName(), caughtException);
+      Thread.sleep(retryDelaySeconds * 1000);
+    }
+    return ret;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the UGI for the current user.
+   * @return the UGI for the current user.
+   */
+  private UserGroupInformation getUGI() {
+    UserGroupInformation ugi = null;
+
+    try {
+      ugi = UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser();
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      // Swallow the exception and let the call determine what to do.
+    }
+
+    return ugi;
+  }
+
+  private void addMethodTime(Method method, long timeTaken) {
+    String methodStr = getMethodString(method);
+    while (true) {
+      Long curTime = metaCallTimeMap.get(methodStr), newTime = timeTaken;
+      if (curTime != null && metaCallTimeMap.replace(methodStr, curTime, newTime + curTime)) break;
+      if (curTime == null && (null == metaCallTimeMap.putIfAbsent(methodStr, newTime))) break;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @param method
+   * @return String representation with arg types. eg getDatabase_(String, )
+   */
+  private String getMethodString(Method method) {
+    StringBuilder methodSb = new StringBuilder(method.getName());
+    methodSb.append("_(");
+    for (Class<?> paramClass : method.getParameterTypes()) {
+      methodSb.append(paramClass.getSimpleName());
+      methodSb.append(", ");
+    }
+    methodSb.append(")");
+    return methodSb.toString();
+  }
+
+  private boolean hasConnectionLifeTimeReached(Method method) {
+    if (connectionLifeTimeInMillis <= 0 || localMetaStore) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    boolean shouldReconnect =
+        (System.currentTimeMillis() - lastConnectionTime) >= connectionLifeTimeInMillis;
+    if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+      LOG.debug("Reconnection status for Method: " + method.getName() + " is " + shouldReconnect);
+    }
+    return shouldReconnect;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Relogin if login user is logged in using keytab
+   * Relogin is actually done by ugi code only if sufficient time has passed
+   * A no-op if kerberos security is not enabled
+   * @throws MetaException
+   */
+  private void reloginExpiringKeytabUser() throws MetaException {
+    if(!UserGroupInformation.isSecurityEnabled()){
+      return;
+    }
+    try {
+      UserGroupInformation ugi = UserGroupInformation.getLoginUser();
+      //checkTGT calls ugi.relogin only after checking if it is close to tgt expiry
+      //hadoop relogin is actually done only every x minutes (x=10 in hadoop 1.x)
+      if(ugi.isFromKeytab()){
+        ugi.checkTGTAndReloginFromKeytab();
+      }
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      String msg = "Error doing relogin using keytab " + e.getMessage();
+      LOG.error(msg, e);
+      throw new MetaException(msg);
+    }
+  }
+
+}