Not sure if this will work, but you could try enabling useNativeQuery in the driver. Theoretically that should send the query string including comments verbatim to Impala.
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Philip Zeyliger <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m a little surprised comments are being stripped, but adding (1=1 or > “”=“your comment”) to a where clause would work similarly. Impala will > simplify that away during query compilation. > > P > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:22 PM Sunil Parmar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Server version: impalad version 2.9.0-cdh5.12.1 RELEASE (build >> 5131a031f4aa38c1e50c430373c55ca53e0517b9) >> >> One of the primary use of of Impala is it acts as a backend to a web >> application exposed to lot of users. We are trying to build monitoring >> metrics per web page, logged in user and other things that are not >> typically supplied in the query string. We were thinking to use query >> comments to pass such information along with query. It worked fine when >> query is executed using impala-shell; I can see the comments in the impala >> monitoring page i.e. on port #25000 but when comments are sent over JDBC ; >> they're not visible to Impalad. >> >> 1. Is there an configuration in Impala driver ? We're using >> <dependency> >> <groupId>com.cloudera.impala</groupId> >> <artifactId>impala-jdbc</artifactId> >> <version>2.5.30</version> >> <scope>compile</scope> >> </dependency> >> >> 2. Is there any other way to send such hints along with query ? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Sunil >> >>
