Sorry for the delay in responding.
> The java API is an ask from one of our users for Hcatalog. Given that > HiveMetaStoreClient is a thin wrapper around public apis, then change > shouldn't be drastic? It seems the cleaner way to go about it is to create > an hcat client wrapper around HiveMetaStoreClient and have HCatClient as > public? > The problem with this proposal is that until HiveMetaStoreClient is a public API, HCatalog has just as little right to integrate with it directly as any other third-party. I think the best solution is to invest the time required to make HiveMetaStoreClient a public API, or to wrap HiveMetaStoreClient with HiveMetaStoreClient2 and make that a public API (we'll probably need to take the latter approach since HiveMetastoreClient currently exposes raw Thrift types). I filed HIVE-3280 to track this task. Thanks. Carl
