Thanks a Lot Edward. constantobjectinspector solved my problem. It works now.
Regards, Murali. On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:29 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: if and only if the number is truely a constant, you can use the constant Object Inspector in initialize. The value but be a constant at query compile time. So this should work: myudtf(5,xpathsfile); THhis can not work myudtf(colx,xpathsfile); On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Kumar V <kumarbuyonl...@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi all, > I have a UDTF that returns fields from an XML/SerDe based table. So I >have to return varying number of fields from the UDTF based on the number of >xpath's in the query file. I am not sure how to access the values of the >parameters in the initialize() method of the UDTF. It only has the >ObjectInspector array. The UDTF itself works fine if I always return a fixed >number of fields. > > >Something like > > >select * from myudtf(xpathsfile); > > >Should return as many fields as there are xpaths in the file. Or I can also >modify the UDTF to take in a parameter for the number of fields, like > > >select * from myudtf(5,xpathsfile); > > >I am kind of against a wall here. Any help is appreciated. > > >Regards, >Murali.
