Easiest is to just use SQL:
hiveContext.sql("CREATE TABLE <tableName> USING parquet OPTIONS (path
'<path>')")
When you specify the path its automatically created as an external table.
The schema will be discovered.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Mohammad Islam <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to create an external hive table using HiveContext. I have the
> following :
> 1. full path/location of parquet data directory
> 2. name of the new table
> 3. I can get the schema as well.
>
> What API will be the best (for 1,3.x or 1.4.x)? I can see 6
> createExternalTable() APIs but not sure which one will be the best.
> I didn't find any good documentation in source code or Java doc about the
> parameters of the APIs (i.e path, source, options etc);
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mohammad
>
>
