Another option is to specify the path in the hive command: hive --auxpath ~/my-classes.jar
-- Brad On Jun 13, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > 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
