Hi hive users, I am writing a custom SerDe that loads any protocol buffer generated class. For flexibility this class can live in a jar external to the SerDe's jar and then I just use the Hive Configuration class passed in the initiliaze to dynamically load it and set the schema for the Hive table.
http://grepcode.com/file/repository.cloudera.com/content/repositories/releases/org.apache.hadoop.hive/hive-serde/0.7.0-cdh3u0/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/Serializer.java#Serializer When I use my custom SerDe as a Deserializer it all works well, I get a Configuration and I correctly load the ProtoBuffer class from the external Jar. However, when I use the SerDe as a Serializer, the Configuration is always set to null so I have no way of loading the external class from the Jar. My questions are: * 1) Is the initialize(..) method in Serializer supposed to always pass a null Configuration?* * * * 2) Is there a way of creating or retrieving the current Hadoop/Hive Configuration when this parameter is passed as null?* * * Thank you, rui
