What is considered the "right way" to get the table path is a HIVE storage handler? The MetaHook interface gives you a Table object which has a getSd() method, but its not clear that this method is invoked outside of lifecycle events (I assume it is not). It seems that if you write a StorageHandler that uses HDFS for storage, this would be a desirable fact to access within configureInputJobProperties() and configureOutputJobProperties(). Is it stored as a property within the jobProperties map already? Is it a constant that can be accessed anywhere in the Configuration or some other place?