SPARK-13774: IllegalArgumentException: Can not create a Path from an empty string for incorrect file path
**Overview:**
- If a non-existent path is given in this call
``
scala> sqlContext.read.format("csv").load("file-path-is-incorrect.csv")
``
it throws the following error:
`java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not create a Path from an empty string` …..
`It gets called from inferSchema call in org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource.resolveRelation`
- The purpose of this JIRA is to throw a better error message.
- With the fix, you will now get a _Path does not exist_ error message.
```
scala> sqlContext.read.format("csv").load("file-path-is-incorrect.csv")
org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Path does not exist: file:/Users/ksunitha/trunk/spark/file-path-is-incorrect.csv;
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$$anonfun$12.apply(DataSource.scala:215)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$$anonfun$12.apply(DataSource.scala:204)
...
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource.resolveRelation(DataSource.scala:204)
at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.load(DataFrameReader.scala:131)
at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.load(DataFrameReader.scala:141)
... 49 elided
```
**Details**
_Changes include:_
- Check if path exists or not in resolveRelation in DataSource, and throw an AnalysisException with message like “Path does not exist: $path”
- AnalysisException is thrown similar to the exceptions thrown in resolveRelation.
- The glob path and the non glob path is checked with minimal calls to path exists. If the globPath is empty, then it is a nonexistent glob pattern and an error will be thrown. In the scenario that it is not globPath, it is necessary to only check if the first element in the Seq is valid or not.
_Test modifications:_
- Changes went in for 3 tests to account for this error checking.
- SQLQuerySuite:test("run sql directly on files") – Error message needed to be updated.
- 2 tests failed in MetastoreDataSourcesSuite because they had a dummy path and so test is modified to give a tempdir and allow it to move past so it can continue to test the codepath it meant to test
_New Tests:_
2 new tests are added to DataFrameSuite to validate that glob and non-glob path will throw the new error message.
_Testing:_
Unit tests were run with the fix.
**Notes/Questions to reviewers:**
- There is some code duplication in DataSource.scala in resolveRelation method and also createSource with respect to getting the paths. I have not made any changes to the createSource codepath. Should we make the change there as well ?
- From other JIRAs, I know there is restructuring and changes going on in this area, not sure how that will affect these changes, but since this seemed like a starter issue, I looked into it. If we prefer not to add the overhead of the checks, or if there is a better place to do so, let me know.
I would appreciate your review. Thanks for your time and comments.
Author: Sunitha Kambhampati <skambha@us.ibm.com>
Closes#11775 from skambha/improve_errmsg.
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