Ideally you want to do everything through the hiveQL language. Calling the read only methods are safe and would be easier/better then Calling 'show tables' and attempting to parse. But I would consider the rest of the interface for "experts" only. Also this interface can change slightly between versions making it harder to build code against.
Edward On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Francis Liu <tof...@apache.org> wrote: > No reponse from the user list. Reposting in the dev list: > > Hi, > > It seems like the HiveMetaStoreClient is the only way to programmatically > access (and retreive) the metastore for DDL and metadata queries as well as > retrieving delegation tokens. It isn't documented anywhere, so I'd like to > know if it is advisable to have code make use of this directly or is this an > internal API? If the latter what would be the recommended way of > programmatically doing the previously mentioned operations? > > -Francis > >
