From 254877c2f04414c70d92fa0a00c0ecee1d73aba7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kunal Khamar <kkhamar@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 09:17:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [SPARK-20164][SQL] AnalysisException not tolerant of null
 query plan.

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

The query plan in an `AnalysisException` may be `null` when an `AnalysisException` object is serialized and then deserialized, since `plan` is marked `transient`. Or when someone throws an `AnalysisException` with a null query plan (which should not happen).
`def getMessage` is not tolerant of this and throws a `NullPointerException`, leading to loss of information about the original exception.
The fix is to add a `null` check in `getMessage`.

## How was this patch tested?

- Unit test

Author: Kunal Khamar <kkhamar@outlook.com>

Closes #17486 from kunalkhamar/spark-20164.
---
 .../scala/org/apache/spark/sql/AnalysisException.scala    | 2 +-
 .../test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala   | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/AnalysisException.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/AnalysisException.scala
index ff85761573..50ee6cd408 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/AnalysisException.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/AnalysisException.scala
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class AnalysisException protected[sql] (
   }
 
   override def getMessage: String = {
-    val planAnnotation = plan.map(p => s";\n$p").getOrElse("")
+    val planAnnotation = Option(plan).flatten.map(p => s";\n$p").getOrElse("")
     getSimpleMessage + planAnnotation
   }
 
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala
index d9e0196c57..0dd9296a3f 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala
@@ -2598,4 +2598,12 @@ class SQLQuerySuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext {
     }
     assert(!jobStarted.get(), "Command should not trigger a Spark job.")
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-20164: AnalysisException should be tolerant to null query plan") {
+    try {
+      throw new AnalysisException("", None, None, plan = null)
+    } catch {
+      case ae: AnalysisException => assert(ae.plan == null && ae.getMessage == ae.getSimpleMessage)
+    }
+  }
 }
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