Additional converters would be a great starter contribution!
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:32 PM, andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > DRILL-1512 only works for reading Avro files off a filesystem such as > HDFS. As far as I know the convert_from() function only supports JSON at > the moment. > > Hope that helps. > > - Andrew > > > > On May 29, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Vince Gonzalez <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Does Drill have any support for Avro stored in HBase columns? IOW, could > I > > do something like this, substituting Avro for JSON? > > > > select convert_from(row_key, 'UTF8') as row_key, > > convert_from(convert_from(t.cf1.data, 'UTF8'), 'JSON') as data from > > `ticks` t limit 1; > > > > > > I see some JIRAs around Avro, including DRILL-1512 which talks about the > > addition of an Avro > > RecordReader in 0.9, but I do not know what this actually means. Is it a > > short path between a RecordReader and the CONVERT_FROM function? > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-1512 > >
