You need to use a combination of output format and serde, this might allow you to do something like present struct objects to the input format rather then Text objects.
You may want to take a look at the protobuf input format we use: https://github.com/edwardcapriolo/hive-protobuf/ You could reverse the logic here and design an output format. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:14 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 >
