org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.plugin
Interface HiveAuthorizerFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

SQLStdHiveAuthorizerFactory

@InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate(value="")
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public interface HiveAuthorizerFactory

Implementation of this interface specified through hive configuration will be used to create HiveAuthorizer instance used for hive authorization.

Method Summary

HiveAuthorizer

createHiveAuthorizer(HiveMetastoreClientFactory metastoreClientFactory, HiveConf conf, HiveAuthenticationProvider hiveAuthenticator) Create a new instance of HiveAuthorizer, initialized with the given objects.

Method Detail

createHiveAuthorizer

HiveAuthorizer createHiveAuthorizer(HiveMetastoreClientFactory metastoreClientFactory,
                                    HiveConf conf,
                                    HiveAuthenticationProvider hiveAuthenticator)
                                    throws HiveAuthzPluginException

Create a new instance of HiveAuthorizer, initialized with the given objects.

Parameters:

metastoreClientFactory - - Use this to get the valid meta store client (IMetaStoreClient) for the current thread. Each invocation of method in HiveAuthorizer can happen in different thread, so get the current instance in each method invocation.

conf - - current HiveConf

hiveAuthenticator - - authenticator, provides user name

Returns:

new instance of HiveAuthorizer

Throws:

HiveAuthzPluginException