Re: Can data be passed to the final mode init call in a UDAF?

2014-02-12 Thread Jason Dere
I've only used Hive 0.12+ and I'm not really familiar with UDAFs, but had to pass some info to a GenericUDF so this might give you some ideas: - During query planning you might be able to set the hive conf using SessionState.get().getConf(). When the query is executing you might be able to acc

Re: Can data be passed to the final mode init call in a UDAF?

2014-02-12 Thread John Meagher
The code I'm having problems with is https://github.com/livingsocial/HiveSwarm/blob/WIP_scripting/src/main/java/com/livingsocial/hive/udf/ScriptedUDAF.java. There is a FIXME comment at the problem area where the return type for the init method can not be determined. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:26 P

Can data be passed to the final mode init call in a UDAF?

2014-02-10 Thread John Meagher
I'm working on a UDAF that takes in a constant string that defines what the final output of the UDAF will be. In the mode=PARTIAL1 call to the init function all the parameters are available and the constant can be read so the output ObjectInspector can be built. I haven't found a way to pass this