Thanks Mark for your reply. My program is like a workflow management application and it runs on client machine and not on hadoop cluster. I use 'hadoop jar' so that my application has access to DFS and hadoop API. I would also like my application to have access to Hive metadata the same way it has access to DFS. Users can then write the rules for their workflow against hive metadata.
Since users for my application are already using Hive, I need to support hive metadata and I can not ask them to move to Hcatlog. Thanks again, Parag From: Mark Grover <grover.markgro...@gmail.com<mailto:grover.markgro...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 10:27 AM To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: Re: How to load hive metadata from conf dir Hi Parag, I think your question boils down to: How does one access Hive metadata from MapReduce jobs? In the past, when I've had to write MR jobs and needed Hive metadata, I ended up writing a wrapper Hive query that used a custom mapper and reducer by using hive's transform functionality to do the job. However, if you want to stick to MR job, you seem to be along the right lines. Also, it seems that HCatalog's (http://incubator.apache.org/hcatalog/docs/r0.4.0/) premise is to make metadata access among Hive, Pig and MR easier. Perhaps, you want to take a look at that and see if that fits your use case? Mark On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Parag Sarda <psa...@walmartlabs.com<mailto:psa...@walmartlabs.com>> wrote: Hello Hive Users, I am writing a program in java which is bundled as JAR and executed using hadoop jar command. I would like to access hive metadata (read partitions informations) in this program. I can ask user to set HIVE_CONF_DIR environment variable before calling my program or ask for any reasonable parameters to be passed. I do not want to force user to run hive megastore service if possible to increase reliability of program by avoiding external dependencies. What is the recommended way to get partitions information? Here is my understanding 1. Make sure my jar is bundled with hive-metastore[1] library. 2. Use HiveMetastoreClient[2] Is this correct? If yes, how to read the hive configuration[3] from HIVE_CONF_DIR? [1] http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hive/hive-metastore [2] http://hive.apache.org/docs/r0.7.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/Hiv eMetaStoreClient.html [3] http://hive.apache.org/docs/r0.7.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/hive/conf/HiveConf .html Thanks in advance, Parag
