Hunk 6.3.0 doesn’t seem to work with Hive (version 0.13) with Char(N) definitions

[tsunamii]

We realized recently that our Hunk 6.3.0 doesn’t seem to work with Hive (version 0.13) with Char(N) definitions.

[splunkIT · Accepted solution]

Based on this link: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Types
Char is only supported in version 0.13 and after
String is supported in earlier versions

As you can see from this link Hunk support Hive version 0.12 or before: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Hunk/6.3.2/Hunk/ConfigureHivepreprocessor

The workaround - modify the Hunk property "vix.env.HUNK_THIRDPARTY_JARS" in your virtual index provider page by pointing all hive related jars to the ones defined in your HIVE_HOME/lib:

• replace the .jar files under $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/jars/thirdparty/hive with that of yours. For example, these are my MapR hive .jar file I will be using:

hive-exec-0.13.0-mapr-1504.jar
hive-metastore-0.13.0-mapr-1504.jar
hive-serde-0.13.0-mapr-1504.jar

• update the vix.env.HUNK_THIRDPARTY_JARS parameter values to reflect the new .jar files so Hunk can use them:

  $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/jars/thirdparty/hive/hive-exec-0.13.0-mapr-1504.jar,$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/jars/thirdparty/hive/hive-metastore-0.13.0-mapr-1504.jar,$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/jars/thirdparty/hive/hive-serde-0.13.0-mapr-1504.jar