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Lars Francke commented on HIVE-2085: ------------------------------------ What's the "Documentation" component for then? The Wiki is nice but it's currently not a very good source of information beyond the very basic things. It is also not complete and I guess probably not up-to-date either on every page. The nature of this issue also requires someone with more knowledge about Hive to take a look it at than a regular user. So I think it's a bad idea closing this issue just because there are other unassigned issues. This is an issue tracker after all. > Document GenericUD(A|T)F > ------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-2085 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2085 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Documentation > Reporter: Lars Francke > Priority: Minor > > GenericUDFs are very poorly documented, this includes everything they relate > to: > * ObjectInspector (JavaDoc not really helpful for someone not familiar with > Hive) > * ObjectInspectorFactory > * ObjectInspectorConverters > * ... > An example would help as well as a unit test for one of the built in > GenericUDFs. Writing a normal UDF is pretty well documented but GenericUDFs > (and UDTF/UDAF) require more knowledge about the inner workings of Hive and > that could be documented better. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira