Are you adding commons-lang to the classpath? one thing to look out
for is hive includes a section of commons-lang in hive-exec.jar which
can make it problematic to get another commons-lang on the classpath.

Edward

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Tucker, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’m trying to convert sanitized HTML data into standard HTML for a query,
> and found that the Commons Lang project has existing methods to do this.  I
> downloaded the jar, with the thought of using the reflect() UDF to call the
> unescapeHtml function, but it doesn’t work
> (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils).
>
>
>
> add jar commons-lang3-3.1.jar;
>
> SELECT
>
>     reflect("org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils", "unescapeHtml",
> htmlData) htmlData,
>
>     COUNT(*)
>
> FROM TableName
>
> WHERE
>
>     calendar_date >= '2012-03-29' AND
>
>     calendar_date <= '2012-04-02' AND
>
>     LOWER(htmlData) LIKE '%see%more%'
>
> GROUP BY reflect("org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils",
> "unescapeHtml", htmlData);
>
>
>
> I’m not yet familiar with reflect(), so I’m not sure if it’s an issue with
> the jar that I’m adding or the reflect() statement.  I get the same error if
> I remove the aggregate function from the query.
>
>
>
> Matt Tucker
>
>

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