Our plan has been to convert this to Hive all along. It was originally done as a storage driver and was converted in situ to a serde when we changed from storage drivers to serdes. I agree it makes sense to wait on the documentation until we get it moved.
Alan. On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Travis Crawford wrote: > Going through some patch available issues this morning I came across > one that proposes adding documentation for using HCatalog features > from Hive, specifically the JsonSerDe > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-397). > > Is there a good reason for having JsonSerDe in HCatalog, or would it > make sense to migrate that to Hive? A quick search shows a few other > people have implemented json serde's too. HCat's implementation > converts directly between HCatRecord and JSON so it couldn't be > directly moved, but I'm mainly curious if at a high level moving this > to Hive would make sense long-term. If we want to migrate that to Hive > I think it would be better for users if we document after migrating to > reduce confusion. > > --travis
