update RE: hive map field question

[Chalcy Raja <Ch...@careerbuilder.com>]

Hi Hive users,

I thought I'll update the status on this.  I could spend some time on cracking hive code, map field related in particular,


1.  Explode works great and it solves a very needed problem for me.

2.  There is already a str_to_map udf available in cdh3u2.  I stumbled upon this while I was looking to create a udf

3.  Here comes the awesome part.  I finally created a udf to convert a map to string.  I would like to contribute it to the hive community.  Let me know how I can do that.

4.  Also there are map_keys and map_values functions which would give a list of arrays of keys and values respectively.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Chalcy

From: Chalcy Raja [mailto:Chalcy.Raja@careerbuilder.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 1:20 PM
To: user@hive.apache.org; 'Bejoy Ks'
Subject: RE: hive map field question

Wow, this is great news.  I read about explode and wished map had that.

Thanks so much,
Chalcy

From: Bejoy Ks [mailto:bejoy_ks@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 1:05 PM
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: Re: hive map field question

Hi Chalcy
        Support for splitting a column of map data type into key and values is available on the hive latest trunk. You can use a explode() UDF to achieve the same, which used to support only arrays previously.
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/udf/generic/GenericUDTFExplode.java?view=markup

You need to patch your hive source installation to get this functionality running. Or as a quick fix (not highly recommended) take the source code include the same as a Custom UDF for your temporary usage. You can utilize the explode functionality as follows combining the same with Lateral Views.

Sample DDL
CREATE TABLE test_map
(
  clmn1 STRING,
  clmn2 STRING,
  clmnMap MAP<STRING,STRING>
)

Sample DML - to extraxt key values from map
SELECT clmn1,clmn2,clmnMap_key,clmnMap_value FROM test_map
LATERAL VIEW explode(clmnMap) cl AS clmnMap_key,clmnMap_value;

Hope it helps!...

Regards
Bejoy.K.S

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From: Mark Grover <mg...@oanda.com>
To: user@hive.apache.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: hive map field question

Chalcy,
I don't know of an existing UDF that lists all keys and values of a map. You may want to check ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/udf in Hive source to double check.
But, as you might have guessed, it'd be pretty straightforward to do that in your own UDF:-)

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chalcy Raja" <Ch...@careerbuilder.com>>
To: "user@hive.apache.org<ma...@hive.apache.org>" <us...@hive.apache.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 11:14:09 AM
Subject: RE: hive map field question

Thanks, Mark.  I'll try that.

Also, is there a way to list all the keys and values in a map field?

Thanks,
Chalcy

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Grover [mailto:mgrover@oanda.com<ma...@oanda.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 11:01 AM
To: user@hive.apache.org<ma...@hive.apache.org>
Subject: Re: hive map field question

Hi Chalcy,
You could write a UDF that takes in a Map object and returns you the string you need.

Alternatively, you could use Hive Transform. Details here:https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Transform

When a map gets passed to your custom transform script, you could read it as a serialized string.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chalcy Raja" <Ch...@careerbuilder.com>>
To: user@hive.apache.org<ma...@hive.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:48:07 AM
Subject: hive map field question




Hello HiveUsers,



I have a need to convert a map<string,string> field to string field and vice versa in a hive table. I could not do cast.



I created two external tables with one has string and another map. I can join both to get what I want, takes a long time.



Any ideas of how it can be done efficiently ?



Thanks,

Chalcy