Commit
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.
IMPALA-3343, IMPALA-9489: Make impala-shell compatible with python 3.
This is the main patch for making the the impala-shell cross-compatible with
python 2 and python 3. The goal is wind up with a version of the shell that will
pass python e2e tests irrepsective of the version of python used to launch the
shell, under the assumption that the test framework itself will continue to run
with python 2.7.x for the time being.
Notable changes for reviewers to consider:
- With regard to validating the patch, my assumption is that simply passing
the existing set of e2e shell tests is sufficient to confirm that the shell
is functioning properly. No new tests were added.
- A new pytest command line option was added in conftest.py to enable a user
to specify a path to an alternate impala-shell executable to test. It's
possible to use this to point to an instance of the impala-shell that was
installed as a standalone python package in a separate virtualenv.
Example usage:
USE_THRIFT11_GEN_PY=true impala-py.test --shell_executable=/<path to virtualenv>/bin/impala-shell -sv shell/test_shell_commandline.py
The target virtualenv may be based on either python3 or python2. However,
this has no effect on the version of python used to run the test framework,
which remains tied to python 2.7.x for the foreseeable future.
- The $IMPALA_HOME/bin/impala-shell.sh now sets up the impala-shell python
environment independenty from bin/set-pythonpath.sh. The default version
of thrift is thrift-0.11.0 (See IMPALA-9489).
- The wording of the header changed a bit to include the python version
used to run the shell.
Starting Impala Shell with no authentication using Python 3.7.5
Opened TCP connection to localhost:21000
...
OR
Starting Impala Shell with LDAP-based authentication using Python 2.7.12
Opened TCP connection to localhost:21000
...
- By far, the biggest hassle has been juggling str versus unicode versus
bytes data types. Python 2.x was fairly loose and inconsistent in
how it dealt with strings. As a quick demo of what I mean:
Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 12 2018, 14:36:49)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> d = 'like a duck'
>>> d == str(d) == bytes(d) == unicode(d) == d.encode('utf-8') == d.decode('utf-8')
True
...and yet there are weird unexpected gotchas.
>>> d.decode('utf-8') == d.encode('utf-8')
True
>>> d.encode('utf-8') == bytearray(d, 'utf-8')
True
>>> d.decode('utf-8') == bytearray(d, 'utf-8') # fails the eq property?
False
As a result, this was inconsistency was reflected in the way we handled
strings in the impala-shell code, but things still just worked.
In python3, there's a much clearer distinction between strings and bytes, and
as such, much tighter type consistency is expected by standard libs like
subprocess, re, sqlparse, prettytable, etc., which are used throughout the
shell. Even simple calls that worked in python 2.x:
>>> import re
>>> re.findall('foo', b'foobar')
['foo']
...can throw exceptions in python 3.x:
>>> import re
>>> re.findall('foo', b'foobar')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/data0/systest/venvs/py3/lib/python3.7/re.py", line 223, in findall
return _compile(pattern, flags).findall(string)
TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object
Exceptions like this resulted in a many, if not most shell tests failing
under python 3.
What ultimately seemed like a better approach was to try to weed out as many
existing spurious str.encode() and str.decode() calls as I could, and try to
implement what is has colloquially been called a "unicode sandwich" -- namely,
"bytes on the outside, unicode on the inside, encode/decode at the edges."
The primary spot in the shell where we call decode() now is when sanitising
input...
args = self.sanitise_input(args.decode('utf-8'))
...and also whenever a library like re required it. Similarly, str.encode()
is primarily used where a library like readline or csv requires is.
- PYTHONIOENCODING needs to be set to utf-8 to override the default setting for
python 2. Without this, piping or redirecting stdout results in unicode errors.
- from __future__ import unicode_literals was added throughout
Testing:
To test the changes, I ran the e2e shell tests the way we always do (against
the normal build tarball), and then I set up a python 3 virtual env with the
shell installed as a package, and manually ran the tests against that.
No effort has been made at this point to come up with a way to integrate
testing of the shell in a python3 environment into our automated test
processes.
Change-Id: Idb004d352fe230a890a6b6356496ba76c2fab615
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/15524
Reviewed-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenkins@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenkins@cloudera.com>- Loading branch information