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Ashutosh Chauhan commented on HIVE-3323: ---------------------------------------- I agree that enums as string (as oppose to struct<int>) makes more sense in all cases. So we can change the default behavior. But since functionality existed in previous releases and folks might be using it, we should add a config param in case folks already using thrift serde can fall back to old behavior in case they want to. I dont think we need to add that option for Avro though since there ever was only was one way of doing it for Avro data. > ThriftSerde: Enable enum to string conversions > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-3323 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3323 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.10.0 > Reporter: Travis Crawford > Assignee: Travis Crawford > Attachments: HIVE-3323_enum_to_string.1.patch, > HIVE-3323_enum_to_string.2.patch, HIVE-3323_enum_to_string.3.patch, > HIVE-3323_enum_to_string.4.patch, HIVE-3323_enum_to_string.5.patch > > > When using serde-reported schemas with the ThriftDeserializer, Enum fields > are presented as {{struct<value:int>}} > Many users expect to work with the string values, which is both easier and > more meaningful as the string value communicates what is represented. > Hive should provide a mechanism to optionally convert enum values to strings. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira