GitHub user Tmin10 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/421
HIVE-20447 Add JSON Outputformat support Based on https://github.com/julianhyde/sqlline/pull/84 Issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20447 1. JSON output format implementation including special symbols escaping based on [1] and [2]; 2. Test for new output format; 3. Little refactoring in AbstractOutputFormat, XMLAttributeOutputFormat and XMLElementOutputFormat. I also send request to take edit rights on Hive wiki to change documentation about beeline output formats. [1] http://json.org [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/json/how-for-json-escapes-special-characters-and-control-characters-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017 You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/Tmin10/hive json-output Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/421.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #421 ---- commit c37acb7bdab47e2c5d2dc73a04c0e13e6b2f8902 Author: Tmin10 <tmin100@...> Date: 2018-08-23T13:07:19Z HIVE-20447 Add JSON Outputformat support ---- ---