I never tried to this exactly but are you sure your thrift version
matches what hive is using? If not I would consider talking to the
#thrift guys because thrift SHOULD_BE generating bindings for every
language roughly the same. (How is that for passing the buck?)
Edward
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Stephen Sprague <sprag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks Ed. Something just isn't quite right.
>
> in .$HOME/downloads/hive-0.9.0/src/metastore/if/hive_metastore.thrift
> there is a 'struct Schema' entry but all attempts to generate the perl
> code for that seem to come up empty.
>
> looking at -gen py and the associated code i see this code frag in
> ThriftHive.py
>
> if ftype == TType.STRUCT:
> self.success = hive_metastore.ttypes.Schema()
> self.success.read(iprot)
> else:
>
> for perl i only have this:
>
> if ($ftype == TType::STRUCT) {
> $self->{success} = new Schema();
> $xfer += $self->{success}->read($input);
>
> and hence "new Schema" throws the exception of not found.
>
>
> comparing to the generated python code -- it has a whole big ttype.py under
> hive_metastore while the generated perl code has zilch. the perl stuff only
> has ThriftHiveMetastore.pm but no subclasses. :(
>
> thoughts, ideas, ruminations?
>
> Thanks again Ed.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hive uses thrift in two places 1) HiveServer 2)Metastore . Search in
>> the metastore directory for the thrift interface file and compile
>> that.
>>
>> Then you should get a class generated for hive_metastore.Schema
>>
>> Edward
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Stephen Sprague <sprag...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Good People,
>> > I am totally stumped on this one. Wondered if a "perl" bindings chap on
>> > this list might be able to help me.
>> >
>> > I generated the ThrftHive.pm class as follows (see below) from my
>> download
>> > area. I've tested some basic examples of querying - and it works well.
>> > The one thing that i can't get to work, though, is a call to
>> > "$client->getSchema()" in order to ascertain the schema of a result set.
>> >
>> > * this built ThriftHIve.pm
>> >
>> > $ thrift -r \
>> > -I $HOME/downloads/hive-0.9.0/src/ql \
>> > -I $HOME/downloads/hive-0.9.0/src \
>> > -I $HOME/downloads/thrift-0.8.0 \
>> > \
>> > -gen perl \
>> > \
>> > $HOME/downloads/hive-0.9.0/src/service/if/hive_service.thrift
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > * in hive_service.thrift here are the relevant lines (that i can tell)
>> >
>> > #the includes
>> > include "contrib/fb303/if/fb303.thrift"
>> > include "metastore/if/hive_metastore.thrift"
>> > include "ql/if/queryplan.thrift"
>> > namespace java org.apache.hadoop.hive.service
>> > namespace cpp Apache.Hadoop.Hive
>> >
>> > <snip>
>> > #the getSchema() reference
>> > service ThriftHive extends hive_metastore.ThriftHiveMetastore {
>> > <snip>
>> > # Get a schema object with fields represented with native Hive types
>> > hive_metastore.Schema getSchema() throws(1:HiveServerException ex)
>> >
>> >
>> > * the relevant line in ThriftHive.pm that throws an undefined method
>> call:
>> >
>> > Undefined subroutine &ThriftHive_getSchema_result::Schema called at
>> > /home/spragues/downloads/thrift-0.8.0/gen-perl/ThriftHive.pm line 672.
>> >
>> > $self->{success} = new Schema();
>> > $xfer += $self->{success}->read($input);
>> >
>> >
>> > Where 'o where is this "Schema" class supposed to be? Any pointers,
>> clues,
>> > suggestions, bread crumbs most welcome!
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Stephen
>>
