You may need to implement a custom SerDe. Regards, Ramki
On May 13, 2013, at 5:14 AM, Rui Martins <ruibmart...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm currently writing my on HiveOutputFormat as I would like to write the > output of hive queries into a specific protobuf format my team is using. > I have managed to do this however, the Writable object I get from Hive as a > result of a SELECT query is of type Text. This means that I have to split the > string to find my fields but that's very error prone, specially if some > fields are strings that may contain spaces. > > My question is: > 1) How do I get a Hive Writable that gives me each field of each result row? > > Thank you, > rui