Hive executable will put all jars in HIVE_LIB=${HIVE_HOME}/lib into
classpath. Try putting your custom jar into the $HIVE_HOME/lib directory
and restarting the CLI.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Oded Rotem <oded.rotem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I run the CLI from a folder containing the jar in question.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sonal Goyal [mailto:sonalgoy...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:14 PM
> To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
> Subject: Re: WritableName can't load class in hive
>
> For some custom functions, I put the jar on the local path accessible to
> the
> CLI. Have you tried that?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Sonal
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Oded Rotem <oded.rotem...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > We have a bunch of sequence files containing keys & values of custom
> > Writable classes that we wrote, in a HDFS directory.
> >
> > We manage to view them using Hadoop fs -text. For further ad-hoc
> analysis,
> > we tried using Hive. Managed to load them as external tables in Hive,
> > however running a simple select count() against the table fails with
> > "WritableName can't load class" in the job output log.
> >
> > Executing
> > add jar <path>
> > does not solve it.
> >
> > Where do we need to place the jar containing the definition of the
> writable
> > classes?
> >
> >
>
>
