HI,
 Is  this  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2655 (Ability to define functions in HQL)  likely to be in for the next release ?  I think this a very useful feature.   Basically, Im trying to avoid writing new UDFs in java , instead use a combination of Macro/Reflect  for some general purpose functions on top of pure  JDK API.  Eg: string/date/math functions.  Im hoping this is doable with HIVE-2655 patch ?
Sam William
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This looks pretty cool. I am looking at what pig is doing allowing UDF
in jruby and jython and this and thing we should support all
approaches. I will look at the ticket some more its pretty awesome.

Edward

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Sam William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HI,
>  Is  this  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2655 (Ability to
> define functions in HQL)  likely to be in for the next release ?  I think
> this a very useful feature.   Basically, Im trying to avoid writing new UDFs
> in java , instead use a combination of Macro/Reflect  for some general
> purpose functions on top of pure  JDK API.  Eg: string/date/math functions.
>  Im hoping this is doable with HIVE-2655 patch ?
>
>
> Sam William
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>