I just wanted to update the list to let future searchers know that I found a solution—David Morel of booking.com kindly shared some code with me to get this working, which he has now released as a Perl library that has been working well:
https://github.com/dmorel/Thrift-API-HiveClient2 https://metacpan.org/release/Thrift-API-HiveClient2 -- Best wishes, Dave Cardwell. http://davecardwell.co.uk/ On 14 May 2013 11:35, Dave Cardwell <d...@davecardwell.co.uk> wrote: > I wrote a few reporting scripts in Perl that connected to Hive via the > Thrift interface. > > Since we upgraded CDH to 4.2.0 and hiveserver2 was installed (with Hive > 0.10.0) the scripts no longer ran due to the API changes. > > I regenerated the Perl modules from the .thrift files and have tried to > translate the Java examples I’ve found online, but cannot for the life of > me get it working with the new interface. > > The Java examples seem to use a TOpenSessionReq class but I cannot find > this anywhere in the generated Perl modules. If I try to skip that part and > go straight to $client->OpenSession() without an argument, the TCLIService > module itself complains that it cannot create a TOpenSessionResp object > because the class is not loaded. > > I have attached example code. Can anyone advise me on how to get past this > block? > > -- > Best wishes, > Dave Cardwell. > > http://davecardwell.co.uk/ >
