You can use the metastore API directly if you source all the correct hadoop and hive xml files, have all of hives/lib in your classpath and network access. It is much more graceful to correct through the thrift service.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Hans Uhlig <huh...@uhlisys.com> wrote: > I am using external tables already. Is the Metastore API not a usable API > from inside another Java Application? > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> The most programmatic way is to use external tables and then use >> HiveService (thrift) to add the partition after your MR job has ran >> successfully. >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Hans Uhlig <huh...@uhlisys.com> wrote: >> > How can you add a partition to a table programmatically? I have a >> > mapreduce= job that needs to perform a "ALTER TABLE x ADD PARTITION IF >> > NOT >> > EXIST (foo= =3D bar) LOCATION '<Mapreduce output>' after it completes. >> > Is >> > there an exa= mple of this anwhere? > >
