Here is a relevant thread:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-user/201008.mbox/%3CAANLkTi=+nongcobujhqshaimxuoo52xfkwbfefu92...@mail.gmail.com%3E
I have personally used the "add file" functionality when accessing
resources. You can access them just by their name in your code.
About #2, doesn't sound normal to me. Did you figure that out or still
running into it?
Mark
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:01 PM, java8964 java8964 <java8...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have 2 questions related to the hive behavior when using 'add jar'.
>
> I am testing the implementing of my own Hive InputFormat and SerDe in a jar
> in my single machine cluster running in Pseudo distributed mode. In the jar,
> I will include the properties file in the top level of the jar.
>
> In my custom code, I will try to load the properties file through the
> following way:
>
> props.load(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("my.properties")).
>
> I am sure that the my.properties exists in the my jar file, but
> this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("my.properties") at runtime will return
> NULL in this case. I am not sure the reason for this. Does anyone have an
> idea?
>
> Second question is that when my test data is small, which is less than the
> setting of (hive.exec.mode.local.auto.inputbytes.max, not sure I typed
> correct here), the hive will run my query locally. But in this case, the
> HIVE will fail due to my custom class (like InputFormat) not found error. Of
> course in my session, I did the 'add jar xxxx.jar' command. If the test is
> big, it will run in the standalone cluster without any problem (it finds the
> class in my jar in this case). My question is this normal? Why hive running
> in local mode won't be able to find my class in the jar which is already
> being added?
>
> My environment is CDH3U5, hive will be 0.7.1 in it.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Yong
