[HIVE-2822] Add JSON output to the hive ddl commands

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Assignee: Chris Dean
• Reporter: Chris Dean
• Created: 24/Feb/12 23:23
• Updated: 09/Jan/13 10:24
• Resolved: 05/Apr/12 06:24

Description

The goal is to have an option to produce JSON output of the DDL commands that is easily machine parseable.

For example, "desc my_table" currently gives

    id    bigint
    user  string

and we want to allow a json output:

    {
      "columns": [
        {"name": "id", "type": "bigint"},
        {"name": "user", "type": "string"}
      ]
    }