[HIVE-3398] Hive serde should support empty struct

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: Serializers/Deserializers
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Feng Peng
• Created: 20/Aug/12 18:31
• Updated: 02/Feb/15 22:06

Description

Right now TypeInfoUtils expects at least one field in a STRUCT, which is not always true, e.g., empty struct is allowed in Thrift. We should modify TypeInfoUtils so that empty struct can be correctly processed.