I am trying to load a xml file into hive table. I am using xml serde here. I am able to load simple flat xml files. But when there are nested elements in the xml, I am using hive complex data types to store them (for e.g., array<struct>
). Below is the sample xml that I am trying to load. My goal is to load all elements, attributes and content into hive table.
<description action="up">
<name action="aorup" ln="te">
this is name1
</name>
<name action="aorup" ln="tm">
this is name2
</name>
<name action="aorup" ln="hi">
this is name2
</name>
</description>
Hive output that I am trying to get is...
{action:"up", name:[{action:"aorup", ln:"te", content:"this is name1"}, {action:"aorup", ln:"tm", content:"this is name2"}, {action:"aorup", ln:"hi", content:"this is name3"}]}
I wanted to load this entire xml into a single hive column. I tried the following:
CREATE TABLE description(
description STRUCT<
Action:STRING,
name:ARRAY<STRUCT<
Action:STRING, ln:STRING, content:STRING
>>
>)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'com.ibm.spss.hive.serde2.xml.XmlSerDe'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (
"xml.processor.class"="com.ximpleware.hive.serde2.xml.vtd.XmlProcessor",
"column.xpath.description"="/description")
STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 'com.ibm.spss.hive.serde2.xml.XmlInputFormat'
OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.IgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat'
TBLPROPERTIES ("xmlinput.start"="<description ","xmlinput.end"= "</description>");
But I am getting null value for Label
field. Can someone help me?
Thanks
create external table description
(
description struct<action:string,description:array<struct<action:string,ln:string,name:string>>>
)
row format serde 'com.ibm.spss.hive.serde2.xml.XmlSerDe'
with serdeproperties
(
"column.xpath.description" = "/description"
)
stored as
inputformat 'com.ibm.spss.hive.serde2.xml.XmlInputFormat'
outputformat 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.IgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat'
tblproperties
(
"xmlinput.start" = "<description "
,"xmlinput.end" = "</description>"
)
;
select * from description
;
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| description |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| {"action":"up","description":[{"action":"aorup","ln":"te","name":"this is name1"},{"action":"aorup","ln":"tm","name":"this is name2"},{"action":"aorup","ln":"hi","name":"this is name2"}]} |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+