Metastore Event Listeners

[Raymond Lau]

Hey guys, I'm having some trouble getting my Metastore Event Listener to do
anything, none of my print statements are occuring.  What am I missing?  I
added the jar in the classpath and i'm pretty sure that it's getting
loaded.  Nothing is showing up in the hive CLI when i create partition on
an external table via "ALTER TABLE table ADD PARTITION
(partitionkey='blah') LOCATION '/path/to/hdfs/file' "

In my hive-site.xml, I have the event listener setting as:

<property>
<name>hive.metastore.event.listeners</name>
<value>company.analytics.MyNotificationListener</value>
</property>

I checked that it's loading via "set;" and it
shows: hive.metastore.event.listeners=company.analytics.MyNotificationListener

And here's my code:

package company.analytics

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreEventListener;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.MetaException;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.events.AddPartitionEvent;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.events.AlterTableEvent;

public class MyNotificationListener extends MetaStoreEventListener {

    public KafkaNotificationListener(final Configuration conf) {
        super(conf);
        System.out.println("Created Kafka Notification Listener");
    }

    @Override
    public void onAddPartition(AddPartitionEvent partitionEvent) throws
MetaException {
        System.out.println("Created partition " +
partitionEvent.getPartition().getTableName());
    }

    @Override
    public void onAlterTable(AlterTableEvent alterTableEvent) throws
MetaException {
        System.out.println("ALTERED TABLE");
    }

}

Thanks in advance.

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*Raymond Lau*
Software Engineer - Intern |
r...@ooyala.com | (925) 395-3806