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ASF GitHub Bot logged work on HIVE-21198: ----------------------------------------- Author: ASF GitHub Bot Created on: 06/Nov/19 16:43 Start Date: 06/Nov/19 16:43 Worklog Time Spent: 10m Work Description: kgyrtkirk commented on pull request #550: HIVE-21198 Introduce a database object reference class URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/550#discussion_r343204479 ########## File path: ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/metadata/Hive.java ########## @@ -1331,6 +1331,21 @@ public Table getTable(final String dbName, final String tableName) throws HiveEx } } + /** + * Returns metadata of the table + * + * @param tableName + * the tableName object + * @return the table + * @exception HiveException + * if there's an internal error or if the table doesn't exist + */ + public Table getTable(TableName tableName) throws HiveException { + + return tableName.getDb() == null ? this.getTable(tableName.getTable(), true) : this Review comment: a table without db is not invalid? is it only needed temporarilt - until this whole thing is done? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org Issue Time Tracking ------------------- Worklog Id: (was: 339476) > Introduce a database object reference class > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-21198 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21198 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Zoltan Haindrich > Assignee: David Lavati > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Attachments: HIVE-21198.1.patch, HIVE-21198.10.patch, > HIVE-21198.2.patch, HIVE-21198.3.patch, HIVE-21198.4.patch, > HIVE-21198.5.patch, HIVE-21198.6.patch, HIVE-21198.7.patch, > HIVE-21198.8.patch, HIVE-21198.9.patch > > Time Spent: 2.5h > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > There are many places in which "{databasename}.{tablename}" is passed as a > single string; there are some places where the they travel as 2 separate > arguments. > Idea would be to introduce a simple immutable class with 2 fields ; and pass > these informations together. Making this better is required if we would be > wanting to enable dot in tablenames > HIVE-16907, HIVE-21151 -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)