[HIVE-699] Make lots of existing ObjectInspectors settable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Zheng Shao Assign to me
• Reporter: Zheng Shao
• Created: 28/Jul/09 10:05
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 04:06
• Resolved: 14/Aug/09 11:48

Description

We should make JavaObjectInspectors, StandardList/Struct/MapObjectInspector, ReflectionObjectInspectors settable.

This will allow us to make it possible to write into Thrift tables, as well as ProtocolBuffer tables in the future.
This will also allow us to pass complex objects into UDF and receive complex objects from UDF by using ObjectInspectorConverters.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-707 add group_concat