I am for it, but we should be absolutely clear about them, that they will be changed on whim. :)
> On Mar 22, 2018, at 4:24 PM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Any reason we shouldn't publish our tests jar? I know it isn't clean and > nice and easy to use. And we'd need to be explicit about any interfaces > we're guaranteeing not to change (very few at this point I think). But the > tools in MetaStoreTestUtils would be really useful for other projects. > Given that we want to encourage others to integrate with HMS this seems > like something we should do. > > Alan. > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Peter Vary <pv...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> The MiniHMS is an internal test utility used to test HMS features. >> It is contained in the hive-standalone-metastore-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT-tests.jar >> I do not think there are currently plans publish it in any of the >> artifacts. >> >> Thanks, >> Peter >> >>> On Mar 21, 2018, at 6:44 PM, Matt Burgess <mattyb...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> I'm looking into writing integration tests for our Hive processors in >>> Apache NiFi to be able to test against a "real" Hive Server 2, Hive >>> Metastore, etc. I see in Hive 3.0 there's a MiniHMS and other test >>> classes, but I couldn't find them in a Maven repo anywhere. Are there >>> artifacts published somewhere that I could use for integration >>> testing? If not, it might be a good idea to make those available for >>> Hive clients to test with, especially if it doesn't require a full >>> Hive install. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Matt >> >>