[HCATALOG-321] HCatSchemaUtil should let you convert create table schema to HCatSchema

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.2, 0.4
• Component/s: mapreduce
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Capwell
• Created: 15/Mar/12 02:27
• Updated: 15/Mar/12 02:27

Description

If i create table with the schema "key STRING, value STRING", if I am using MR i have to do HCatOutputFormat.setSchema(job, HCatSchemaUtils.getHCatSchema("key:string,value:string"));

It would be nice if I could take the same string i use in create table and use that in MR.