title: Sqoop: --as-parquetfile is not working
body: <p>i want save sqoop files as parquet file directly to hdfs. i am trying below command to do so. but facing  <code>ERROR sqoop.Sqoop: Got exception running Sqoop: java.lang.NullPointerException</code></p>
  
  <p>sqoop version - 1.4.7</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>sqoop import --options-file /home/user/optionsfile.txt --query "select
    * from table where \$CONDITIONS" --target-dir 'hdfs:///user/x/sqoop1' --as-parquetfile -m 1;</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>when i try same sqoop command without <code>--as-parquetfile</code> job is executing successfully   </p>