Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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0.10.0
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Description
Previous Hive CLI allows user to specify hive variables at the command line using option "--hivevar". In user's script, reference to a hive variable will be substituted with the value of the variable. In such way, user can parameterize his/her script and invoke the script with different hive variable values. The following script is one usage:
hive --hivevar INPUT=/user/jenkins/oozie.1371538916178/examples/input-data/table --hivevar OUTPUT=/user/jenkins/oozie.1371538916178/examples/output-data/hive -f script.q
script.q makes use of hive variables:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE test (a INT) STORED AS TEXTFILE LOCATION '${INPUT}'; INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY '${OUTPUT}' SELECT * FROM test;
However, after upgrade to hiveserver2 and beeline, this functionality is missing. Beeline doesn't take --hivevar option, and any hive variable isn't passed to server so it cannot be used for substitution.
This JIRA is to address this issue, providing a backward compatible behavior at Beeline.