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Chris Dean updated HIVE-2822: ----------------------------- Status: Patch Available (was: Open) This is a work in progress snapshot of a json patch. Feedback appreciated -- probably not ready for merging into the trunk. This patch implements and few of the ddl commands: describeTable, showTableStatus, and showTablePartitons. See org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.MetaDataFormatter. > Add JSON output to the hive ddl commands > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2822 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2822 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Chris Dean > Attachments: hive-json-01.patch > > > The goal is to have an option to produce JSON output of the DDL commands that > is easily machine parseable. > For example, "desc my_table" currently gives > {noformat} > id bigint > user string > {noformat} > and we want to allow a json output: > {noformat} > { > "columns": [ > {"name": "id", "type": "bigint"}, > {"name": "user", "type": "string"} > ] > } > {noformat} -- 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