Cool. Thanks :)
Also was just curious what do people generally use to write struct data in hive
tables? I see that there is a STRUCT function defined that takes parameters and
creates structs off them. Can we use a custom class as well?
Thanks again.
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On Jul 23, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> in your case hbase has a custom serde, the Deserializer interface is
> what turns the value from the input format into something that hive
> can understand. HBase support uses the user specified table property
> columns.mapping as information for what it should parse out of the
> hbase result.
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:27 PM, kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com
> <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I kind of have a pretty basic question here. I am trying to read structs
>> stored in HBase to be read by Hive. In what format should these structs be
>> written so that they can be read?
>>
>> For instance, if my query has the following struct:
>>
>> s struct<a: STRING, b: STRING>
>>
>> How should I be writing my data in HBase so that when read, it fits into
>> this struct? In other words, can I create my own class 'MyStruct' which is
>> something like:
>>
>> class MyStruct{
>> string a;
>> string b;
>> }
>>
>> to create the struct bytes and read them using hive with the struct defined
>> above? I hope I made my question clear. I will be glad to provide any
>> clarifications.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Swarnim
