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Richard Lee commented on HIVE-309:
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I would love to make the hive-udf.properties part of the hive configuration 
file, but the functions are presently defined in a static initializer which has 
no access to a HiveConf object.   That's why I went with a system property for 
defining what file to look in.



> FunctionRegistry should allow loading UDFs and UDAFs from property file
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-309
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-309
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Richard Lee
>         Attachments: hive-external-functions-2.diff, 
> hive-external-functions.diff
>
>
> FunctionRegistry.java hard code all UDF, UDAF definitions in a static 
> initializer.  There is no way to add new functions without directly modifying 
> this file.  
> FunctionRegistry SHOULD look for a property file in which new functions and 
> their implementations can be specified.  This will allow third parties to 
> extend hive without maintaining patches against the codebase. 

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