Cool, thanks for the clarification guys. I'll get on with the implementation of another SerDe. :)
@Edward - Thanks for the link. I actually already have a protobuffer SerDe that I implemented that allows passing any protobuffer schema into it (as long as it's proto 2.4.1) and also has some other features like mimic'ing Maps that proto doesn't have. I'll reply back to this thread with my progress. Thanks guys, rui On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >> > >
