[HIVE-23856] Beeline Should Print Binary Data in Base64

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: Beeline
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Target Version/s: 4.0.0
• Assignee: Hunter Logan
• Reporter: David Mollitor
• Created: 15/Jul/20 14:26
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 08:47
• Resolved: 16/Jul/20 13:36

Description

Make binary data formatted as Base64 to make it more parse-able by external applications and easier for humans to convert using a Base64 tool.

https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/beeline/src/java/org/apache/hive/beeline/Rows.java#L165

Example

Binary Data: Hello world!
Current BINARY output: [72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 119, 111, 114, 108, 100, 33]
Proposed BINARY output: SGVsbG8gd29ybGQh

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1261