If you use Double or double hive will automatically convert. I would
always recommend the hive.serde types.
Edward
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:56 PM, <richin.j...@nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
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> I am writing a UDF in hive to convert a double value to string, so the
> evaluate method of my UDF class looks like
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> import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.UDF;
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> import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
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> //import org.apache.hadoop.io.DoubleWritable; - does not work
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> import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.io.DoubleWritable;
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> public Text evaluate(DoubleWritable d){
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> }
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> When I looked at different UDF examples the Hadoop Writables seem to work
> fine in case of Text and IntWritable but for DoubleWritable I was getting an
> error. I figured out looking at couple of examples online that I should use
> the DoubleWritable from hive.serde2 package instead of hadoop.io package.
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> Can someone please explain why this special case for DoubleWritable?
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> Thanks,
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> Richin
