You need to put these jars in your aux_lib folder or in your hadoop classpath. There is a subtle difference between that classpath and the classpath used by UDF and anything that involves a serde or input format needs to be in auxlib.
Edward On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM, kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > In order to provide a custom "serialization.class" to a SerDe, I created a > jar containing all my custom serialization classes and added them to the > hive classpath with "ADD JAR my-classes.jar" command. Now when I try to use > these custom classes via CLI, it still throws me a "ClassNotFoundException" > for those custom classes in my jar. > > Is there something that I am missing? I confirmed that 'list jars' is > showing me the custom jar that I added. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > -- > Swarnim
