[HIVE-5737] Provide StructObjectInspector for UDTFs rather than ObjectInspect[]

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: UDF
• Assignee: Navis Ryu
• Reporter: Navis Ryu
• Created: 04/Nov/13 07:21
• Updated: 02/Dec/21 11:23
• Resolved: 10/Nov/13 16:33

Description

1. In UDTF, column names can be useful sometimes. For example, complex function with many optional parameters something like,

xml_explode('\t' as field, '\n' as line, '=' as mapkey, ':' as items, input)

Without column name, it's not easy to discern each parameter is for what.