I can successfully build the maven package but when I run the code I am getting the error shown below. Its looking for gson-2.2.2.jar for some reason ,where as the pom file has the version 2.2.6 and the file also exists " /root/.m2/repository/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.6.2/gson-2.6.2.jar" the maven version and the pom.xml files are shown below: [root@hadoop1 hive-json-master]# bin/find-json-schema /tmp/events.1476299830387.log Can't find /root/.m2/repository/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.2.2/gson-2.2.2.jar. Please build. [root@hadoop1 hive-json-master]# [root@hadoop1 hive-json-master]# more pom.xml <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>org.apache.hive</groupId> <artifactId>hive-json</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <name>Hive-JSON</name> <url>http://hive.apache.org</url> <repositories> <repository> <id>data-nucleus</id> <name>data-nucleus</name> <url>http://www.datanucleus.org/downloads/maven2/</url> </repository> </repositories> <properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> </properties> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId> <artifactId>gson</artifactId> <version>2.6.2</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>4.10</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5.1</version> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> </configuration> </plugin> <!-- make a jar with the source code --> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.2.1</version> <executions> <execution> <id>attach-sources</id> <goals> <goal>jar</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <!-- make a jar with the javadoc --> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.9</version> <configuration> <show>public</show> <!-- only include our source, not the protobuf --> <sourcepath>${basedir}/src/main/java</sourcepath> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <id>attach-javadocs</id> <goals> <goal>jar</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0-beta-6</version> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5.2</version> <configuration> <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput> <xmlOutputDirectory>target/site</xmlOutputDirectory> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> <configuration> <systemProperties> <name>test.tmp.dir</name> <value>${project.build.directory}/test/tmp</value> <name>test.resources.dir</name> <value>${basedir}/src/test/resources</value> </systemProperties> <argLine>-Xms256m -Xmx512m</argLine> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <archive> <manifest> <mainClass>org.apache.hadoop.hive.json.JsonSchemaFinder</mainClass> </manifest> </archive> <descriptorRefs> <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef> </descriptorRefs> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <id>make-assembly</id> <!-- this is used for inheritance merges --> <phase>package</phase> <!-- bind to the packaging phase --> <goals> <goal>single</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> <reporting> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4</version> <configuration> <dependencyLocationsEnabled>false</dependencyLocationsEnabled> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.9</version> <configuration> <show>public</show> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5.2</version> </plugin> </plugins> </reporting> </project> [root@hadoop1 hive-json-master]# ... View more

I created a hive table as follows : CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE tweetdata(created_at STRING, text STRING, person STRUCT< screen_name:STRING, name:STRING, locations:STRING, description:STRING, created_at:STRING, followers_count:INT, url:STRING> ) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'com.cloudera.hive.serde.JSONSerDe' location '/user/flume/tweets'; but I am getting errors doing selecting iam using HDP2.5 hive> > describe tweetdata; OK created_at string from deserializer text string from deserializer person struct<screen_name:string,name:string,locations:string,description:string,created_at:string,followers_count:int,url:string> from deserializer Time taken: 0.076 seconds, Fetched: 3 row(s) hive> select person.name, text from tweetdata; OK Failed with exception java.io.IOException:org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeException: org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('O' (code 79)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null') at [Source: java.io.StringReader@4668c5ea; line: 1, column: 2] Time taken: 0.077 seconds hive> ... View more