CatalogStorageFormat¶

[[creating-instance]] CatalogStorageFormat is the storage specification of a partition or a table, i.e. the metadata that includes the following:

• [[locationUri]] Location URI (Java URI)
• [[inputFormat]] Input format
• [[outputFormat]] Output format
• [[serde]] SerDe
• [[compressed]] compressed flag
• [[properties]] Properties (as Map[String, String])

CatalogStorageFormat is <> when:

• HiveClientImpl is requested for metadata of a table or table partition

• SparkSqlAstBuilder is requested to parse Hive-specific CREATE TABLE or INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY SQL statements

[[toString]] CatalogStorageFormat uses the following text representation (i.e. toString)...FIXME

=== [[toLinkedHashMap]] Converting Storage Specification to LinkedHashMap -- toLinkedHashMap Method

[source, scala]¶

toLinkedHashMap: mutable.LinkedHashMap[String, String]¶

toLinkedHashMap...FIXME

toLinkedHashMap is used when:

• CatalogStorageFormat is requested for a text representation
• CatalogTablePartition is requested for toLinkedHashMap
• CatalogTable is requested for toLinkedHashMap
• DescribeTableCommand is executed