Can you try to set serde properties? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-AddSerDeProperties
I have not tried it, but seems it is the right way to pass configurations to serde class. Thanks, Yin On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Rui Martins <ru...@ruibm.com> wrote: > +dev hive mailing list that I should've mailed in the first place. > > (apologies for the spam) > > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Rui Martins <ru...@ruibm.com> wrote: > >> Hi hive users, >> >> I am writing a custom SerDe that loads any protocol buffer generated >> class. >> For flexibility this class can live in a jar external to the SerDe's jar >> and then I just use the Hive Configuration class passed in the initiliaze >> to dynamically load it and set the schema for the Hive table. >> >> >> http://grepcode.com/file/repository.cloudera.com/content/repositories/releases/org.apache.hadoop.hive/hive-serde/0.7.0-cdh3u0/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/Serializer.java#Serializer >> >> When I use my custom SerDe as a Deserializer it all works well, I get a >> Configuration and I correctly load the ProtoBuffer class from the external >> Jar. >> >> However, when I use the SerDe as a Serializer, the Configuration is >> always set to null so I have no way of loading the external class from the >> Jar. >> >> My questions are: >> >> * 1) Is the initialize(..) method in Serializer supposed to always pass >> a null Configuration?* >> * >> * >> * 2) Is there a way of creating or retrieving the current Hadoop/Hive >> Configuration when this parameter is passed as null?* >> * >> * >> >> Thank you, >> rui >> > >
