I believe you’ll need to put the custom jar in DRILL’s classpath (it does not include $HIVE_HOME/lib be default since there’s no guarantee it will be on all cluster nodes).
I’ve been successful putting the extra libraries I need for object-store access into $DRILL_HOME/jars/3rdparty. — David On Mar 31, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Ganesha Muthuraman <mganesh...@outlook.com> wrote: > Posting this message again as I did not get a response to the previous: > I > am getting a hive custom SerDe not found error when I try to describe (or > query) hive > tables in drill that use a custom SerDe. show tables works ok. Also, any > table that does not use custom SerDe, works well. All tables work fine in > Hive shell. > > > > I’m > trying this in Cloudera Hadoop. Tried this in both CDH VM and an actual CDH > cluster (5.2.0) with the same observation. In the VM, it was an embedded > configuration, whereas in the cluster it was a distributed one. Tried copying > the custom SerDe Jar to jars/3rdparty directory but to no avail. Any help will > be appreciated. > I do have the SerDe jar in /usr/lib/hive/lib > -Ganesh
