Re: Using Reflect: A thread for ideas

2013-02-19 Thread Edward Capriolo
We could very easily write hive so that a UDF is a piece of groovy loaded dynamically. This is my go-to system to make things plugable. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:03 AM, John Meagher wrote: > Another option for this functionality would be to use the Java scripting > API. The basic structure of t

Re: Using Reflect: A thread for ideas

2013-02-19 Thread John Meagher
Another option for this functionality would be to use the Java scripting API. The basic structure of the call would be... select script( scriptLanguage, scriptToRun, args... ) I haven't seen that in Hive, but something similar is available for Pig. Documentation for that is available on http://

Re: CHAN (Comprehensive Hive Archive Network) (Was Re: Using Reflect: A thread for ideas)

2013-02-14 Thread Patrick D'Souza
nnell, Chuck wrote: > +1, great idea! > > ** ** > > Chuck Connell, Nuance > > ** ** > > *From:* Robin Morris [mailto:r...@baynote.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:59 AM > *To:* user@hive.apache.org > *Subject:* CHAN (Comprehensive Hive Arc

RE: CHAN (Comprehensive Hive Archive Network) (Was Re: Using Reflect: A thread for ideas)

2013-02-14 Thread Connell, Chuck
+1, great idea! Chuck Connell, Nuance From: Robin Morris [mailto:r...@baynote.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:59 AM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: CHAN (Comprehensive Hive Archive Network) (Was Re: Using Reflect: A thread for ideas) I think we need to think a little bigger than

Re: CHAN (Comprehensive Hive Archive Network) (Was Re: Using Reflect: A thread for ideas)

2013-02-14 Thread John Omernik
I think the idea has potential. It would be cool if there was a sort of (excuse the analogy) social media like system that would allow community to identify which UD[AT]Fs or reflect type functions are useful to them. It would almost act as a staging platform to help identify to the maintainers

CHAN (Comprehensive Hive Archive Network) (Was Re: Using Reflect: A thread for ideas)

2013-02-13 Thread Robin Morris
I think we need to think a little bigger than this. Recently I've been thinking that what would be most useful to the Hive user community would be a CHAN – Comprehensive Hive Archive Network, (analogous to CPAN, CRAN, CTAN etc.). A central place where user-contributed UD[A,T]Fs could be upload