[HIVE-12406] HIVE-9500 introduced incompatible change to LazySimpleSerDe public interface

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0, 2.0.0
• Component/s: Serializers/Deserializers
• Assignee: Aihua Xu
• Reporter: Lenni Kuff
• Created: 13/Nov/15 07:39
• Updated: 16/Feb/16 23:52
• Resolved: 23/Nov/15 20:47

Description

In the process of fixing HIVE-9500, an incompatibility was introduced that will break 3rd party code that relies on LazySimpleSerde. In HIVE-9500, the nested class SerDeParamaters was removed and the method LazySimpleSerDe.initSerdeParms was also removed. They were replaced by a standalone class LazySerDeParameters.

Since this has already been released, I don't think we should revert the change since that would mean breaking compatibility again. Instead, the best approach would be to support both interfaces, if possible.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-9500 Support nested structs over 24 levels.
• links to: Code review