I'm trying to get table properties like table db, name, owner, and hdfs location out of the hive metastore using the metastore client in java. I think I can get the table databases and names okay, but I can't figure out how to grab things like owner and hdfs location. Is it possible? I've been searching the doc and internet for a couple hours now and no dice.
Could be something like that:
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table table=..........;
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.StorageDescriptor sd=table.getSd();
String loc=sd.getLocation();
String own=sd.getOwner();
https://hive.apache.org/javadocs/r0.11.0/api/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/api/Table.html https://hive.apache.org/javadocs/r0.11.0/api/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/api/StorageDescriptor.html
If it is a partitioned table, you can do a :
describe formatted table partition(partition_name=partition_value).
It will display the underlying hdfs path and the owner of the table.
I ran the following command on my virtualbox having Cloudera CDH 5.1.0
$ hive -e "describe extended tablename"
The output of this command provides information in addition to tablename, dbname, owner, createtime, location. You can also refer the following CWIKI link for more details
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-Describe
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33880050/get-table-properties-out-of-hive-using-java-api