+1 We're currently having to maintain a very simple internal project that delegates to FileDump so that we can peer into Orc files more easily because our installed Hive CLI version lacks the more useful FileDump features. This would be a welcome addition.
On 19 July 2016 at 17:45, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > I think it would be nice if we made a tool jar to make it easier to > invoke the equivalent of orcfiledump from Hive. In particular, I propose > that we create a java/tools directory and move FileDump and JsonFileDump in > to it. We can also make an orc-tools.jar that is an uber jar and can be > invoked easily from the command line. > > Thoughts? > Owen >
