[SQOOP-2471] Support arrays and structs datatypes with Sqoop Hcatalog integration

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.6
• Component/s: hive-integration
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Pavel Benes
• Created: 10/Aug/15 08:57
• Updated: 30/May/18 15:21
• Resolved: 30/May/18 15:21

Description

Currently sqoop import is not able to handle any complex type. On the other side the hive already has support for the following complex types:

• arrays: ARRAY<data_type>
• structs: STRUCT<col_name : data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...>

Since it is probably not possible to obtain all necessary information about those types from general JDBC database, this feature should somehow use an external information provided by arguments --map-column-java and --map-column-hive.

For example it could look like this:
--map-column-java item='inventory_item(name text, supplier_id integer,price numeric)'
--map-column-hive item='STRUCT<name : string, supplier_id : int, price : decimal>'

In case no additional information is provided some more general type should be created if possible.

It should be possible to serialize the complex datatypes values into strings when the Hive target column's type is explicitly set to 'STRING'.

Issue Links

• is related to: SQOOP-1000 Sqoop should support SQL ARRAY type
• is superceded by: SQOOP-2935 Support complex types with HCatatog integration