+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 >
