[HIVE-2482] Convenience UDFs for binary data type

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Labels: TODOC12
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change
• Release Note: This is an incompatible change because the return type of unhex has been changed from string to binary
• Assignee: Mark Wagner
• Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan
• Created: 04/Oct/11 23:33
• Updated: 30/Apr/15 05:38
• Resolved: 13/Aug/13 13:19

Description

HIVE-2380 introduced binary data type in Hive. It will be good to have following udfs to make it more useful:

• UDF's to convert to/from hex string
• UDF's to convert to/from string using a specific encoding
• UDF's to convert to/from base64 string

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-10518 Replace US_ASCII charset with US-ASCII in encode and decode description
• is related to: HIVE-2380 Add Binary Datatype in Hive