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Francis Liu commented on HIVE-2773: ----------------------------------- Since it's an interface, things will still break not unless they extended DefaultStorageHandler. In any case will ask user@hive. > HiveStorageHandler.configureTableJobProperites() should let the handler know > wether it is configuration for input or output > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2773 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2773 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Francis Liu > Assignee: Francis Liu > Labels: hcatalog, storage_handler > Attachments: HIVE-2773.D1815.1.patch, HIVE-2773.patch > > > HiveStorageHandler.configureTableJobProperties() is called to allow the > storage handler to setup any properties that the underlying > inputformat/outputformat/serde may need. But the handler implementation does > not know whether it is being called for configuring input or output. This > makes it a problem for handlers which sets an external state. In the case of > HCatalog's HBase storageHandler, whenever a write needs to be configured we > create a write transaction which needs to be committed or aborted later on. > In this case configuring for both input and output each time > configureTableJobProperties() is called would not be desirable. This has > become an issue since HCatalog is dropping storageDrivers for SerDe and > StorageHandler (see HCATALOG-237). > My proposal is to replace configureTableJobProperties() with two methods: > configureInputJobProperties() > configureOutputJobProperties() > Each method will have the same signature. I cursory look at the code and I > believe changes should be straighforward also given that we are not really > changing anything just splitting responsibility. If the community is fine > with this approach I will go ahead and create a aptch. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira