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ASF GitHub Bot logged work on HIVE-25541: ----------------------------------------- Author: ASF GitHub Bot Created on: 28/Sep/21 19:47 Start Date: 28/Sep/21 19:47 Worklog Time Spent: 10m Work Description: pgaref commented on a change in pull request #2664: URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/2664#discussion_r717554831 ########## File path: serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/json/HiveJsonReader.java ########## @@ -393,7 +402,16 @@ private Object visitLeafNode(final JsonNode leafNode, case DOUBLE: return Double.valueOf(leafNode.asDouble()); case STRING: - return leafNode.asText(); + if (leafNode.isValueNode()) { + return leafNode.asText(); + } else { + if (isEnabled(Feature.STRINGIFY_COMPLEX_FIELDS)) { + return leafNode.toString(); + } else { + throw new SerDeException( + "Complex field found in JSON does not match table definition: " + typeInfo.getTypeName()); Review comment: Hey @dengzhhu653 not sure what you are referring to here -- this PR is targeting complex fields with non defined Hive schema (like a map of maps which is defined as a simple map) Enabling this feature will cause the JSON reader to treat the above complex field as a String (the input type is not important here) -- does it make sense? -- 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. To unsubscribe, e-mail: gitbox-unsubscr...@hive.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org Issue Time Tracking ------------------- Worklog Id: (was: 656422) Time Spent: 1.5h (was: 1h 20m) > JsonSerDe: TBLPROPERTY treating nested json as String > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-25541 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-25541 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Panagiotis Garefalakis > Assignee: Panagiotis Garefalakis > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Time Spent: 1.5h > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > Native Jsonserde 'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe' currently does not > support loading nested json into a string type directly. It requires the > declaring the column as complex type (struct, map, array) to unpack nested > json data. > Even though the data field is not a valid JSON String type there is value > treating it as plain String instead of throwing an exception as we currently > do. > {code:java} > create table json_table(data string, messageid string, publish_time bigint, > attributes string); > {"data":{"H":{"event":"track_active","platform":"Android"},"B":{"device_type":"Phone","uuid":"[36ffec24-f6a4-4f5d-aa39-72e5513d2cae,11883bee-a7aa-4010-8a66-6c3c63a73f16]"}},"messageId":"2475185636801962","publish_time":1622514629783,"attributes":{"region":"IN"}}"}} > {code} > This JIRA introduces an extra Table Property allowing to Stringify Complex > JSON values instead of forcing the User to define the complete nested > structure -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)