private static org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table createTTableObject(String tableName) {
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table tTable =
        new org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table();
    tTable.setSd(new StorageDescriptor());
    tTable.setTableName(tableName);
    return tTable;
  }
Test that no staging directory is created for default behavior where the
directory location is on the local file system.
itests/hive-unit/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/TestParseUtilsStagingDir.java