Iceberg API is unable to connect to Hive Metastore > 4.0.0-beta-1

[mderoy]

Apache Iceberg version

1.7.1 (latest release)

Query engine

None

Please describe the bug 🐞

between hive metastore 4.0.0-beta-1 and 4.0.0, the hive metastore configurations were updated, for example the variable METASTOREWAREHOUSE was updated to METASTORE_WAREHOUSE (these properties also seem deprecated and will eventually be moved out of HiveConf and into into MetastoreConf class as well). After updating, connections to the metastore will fail via a java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: METASTOREURIS exception since even the latest version of https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/main/hive-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveCatalog.java references the old field names.

I did find one closed ticket referencing this
#10429
but this seems to be a user of the query engine having issues, where the suggestion was to use hive's own shaded iceberg depdency, while I am the user of the java API which currently is unable to connect using the latest hive libraries.

Willingness to contribute

• I can contribute a fix for this bug independently
• I would be willing to contribute a fix for this bug with guidance from the Iceberg community
• I cannot contribute a fix for this bug at this time

[manuzhang]

We haven't supported connecting to metastore with Hive 4.0 yet. There's ongoing PR and discussion