MapR [SPARK-1216] java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: ${system:user.name%7D (apache#1136)

Co-authored-by: Egor Krivokon <>

Author: ekrivokonmapr

bin/configure.sh

@@ -491,6 +491,13 @@ function registerServicePorts() {
 	registerPortHistoryServer
 }
 
+function configureHiveWarehouseForNonHiveEnv() {
+  cat >> "$SPARK_HOME"/conf/spark-defaults.conf << EOM
+# Default location for Warehouse, if not using Hive
+EOM
+  changeSparkDefaults "spark.sql.warehouse.dir" "maprfs:///user/${USER}/spark-warehouse"
+}
+
 #
 # Add warden files
 #
@@ -638,6 +645,7 @@ done
 mkBackupForOldConfigs
 
 registerServicePorts
+configureHiveWarehouseForNonHiveEnv
 if [ "$HIVE_INSTALLED" = true ]; then
 	configureOnHive
 fi

conf/spark-defaults.conf

@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ spark.eventLog.enabled             true
 spark.eventLog.dir                 maprfs:///apps/spark
 spark.history.fs.logDirectory      maprfs:///apps/spark
 
-# Default location for Warehouse, if not using Hive
-spark.sql.warehouse.dir            maprfs:///user/${system:user.name}/spark-warehouse
-
 # Fix for SPARK-963 restore the behavior before Spark 3.2
 spark.hadoopRDD.ignoreEmptySplits  false