[HCATALOG-350] Writing BINARY data to HCatRecord depends on a Hive class

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Component/s: mapreduce
• Assignee: Thejas Nair
• Reporter: David Capwell
• Created: 27/Mar/12 20:54
• Updated: 15/Feb/13 21:32
• Resolved: 27/Jul/12 01:16

Description

If I want to write binary data to the HCatRecord I must write using org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.ByteArrayRef. This is the only case in HCatRecord that doesn't use a Java native type. It would be nice if I could pass in a byte[] directly.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HCATALOG-455 Fix HCatalog breakage due to Hive change from ByteArrayRef to byte[]
• relates to: HCATALOG-441 add getBinary calls to HCatRecord