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Hudson commented on HIVE-2171: ------------------------------ Integrated in Hive-trunk-h0.21 #892 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/Hive-trunk-h0.21/892/]) HIVE-2171. Allow custom serdes to set field comments (Jakob Homan via jvs) jvs : http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Apache-SVN&view=rev&rev=1157224 Files : * /hive/trunk/metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/MetaStoreUtils.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/TestStandardObjectInspectors.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/ColumnarStructObjectInspector.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/UnionStructObjectInspector.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/objectinspector/LazySimpleStructObjectInspector.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/ReflectionStructObjectInspector.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/ObjectInspectorFactory.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/TestSerdeWithFieldComments.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/MetadataListStructObjectInspector.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazybinary/objectinspector/LazyBinaryObjectInspectorFactory.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/objectinspector/LazyObjectInspectorFactory.java * /hive/trunk/ivy/libraries.properties * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazybinary/objectinspector/LazyBinaryStructObjectInspector.java * /hive/trunk/serde/ivy.xml * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/StandardStructObjectInspector.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/StructField.java > Allow custom serdes to set field comments > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2171 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2171 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.7.0 > Reporter: Jakob Homan > Assignee: Jakob Homan > Fix For: 0.8.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-2171-2.patch, HIVE-2171.patch > > > Currently, while serde implementations can set a field's name, they can't set > its comment. These are set in the metastore utils to {{(from > deserializer)}}. For those serdes that can provide meaningful comments for a > field, they should be propagated to the table description. These > serde-provided comments could be prepended to "(from deserializer)" if others > feel that's a meaningful distinction. This change involves updating > {{StructField}} to support a (possibly null) comment field and then > propagating this change out to the myriad places {{StructField}} is thrown > around. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira