Yes, I run the CLI from a folder containing the jar in question. -----Original Message----- From: Sonal Goyal [mailto:sonalgoy...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:14 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: WritableName can't load class in hive
For some custom functions, I put the jar on the local path accessible to the CLI. Have you tried that? Thanks and Regards, Sonal On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Oded Rotem <oded.rotem...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have a bunch of sequence files containing keys & values of custom > Writable classes that we wrote, in a HDFS directory. > > We manage to view them using Hadoop fs -text. For further ad-hoc analysis, > we tried using Hive. Managed to load them as external tables in Hive, > however running a simple select count() against the table fails with > "WritableName can't load class" in the job output log. > > Executing > add jar <path> > does not solve it. > > Where do we need to place the jar containing the definition of the writable > classes? > >
