Have you considered running a script using the shell action to return the data you want? See http://oozie.apache.org/docs/4.0.0/DG_ShellActionExtension.html
On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Nitin Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I have some coordinator jobs (primarily hive scripts) that are running on a > daily basis. I need to pass parameters to the hive script such as 'day of > the year' and other variables that script should read from a configurable > source. > > I know this can be done by changing the workflow.xml and deploying it to > HDFS before the action is instantiated every day. But its kind of a > overhead because we will have several such workflows to maintain. > > Is there a better strategy to pass arguments to coordinator jobs at > run-time? Maybe a sequence of other actions that need to be performed in > the workflow so that the hive script gets the appropriate parameters? > > Any suggestions are welcome. > > Regards, > Nitin >
