排查Hive报错:org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeException: java.io.IOException: Start of Array expected

CREATE TABLE json_nested_test (
    count string,
    usage string,
    pkg map<string,string>,
    languages array<string>,
    store map<string,array<map<string,string>>>)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'
STORED AS TEXTFILE;

以上述 sql 创建表 json_nested_test 后,查询时发现报错:Failed with exception java.io.IOException:org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeException: java.io.IOException: Start of Array expected

于是进行如下测试,发现是 org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe 对复杂类型支持不足造成,例如 map<string,array<string>>,这个例子中就是不支持 array 作为 map 的 value.
CREATE TABLE json_nested_test_openx (
    count string,
    usage string,
    pkg map<string,string>,
    languages array<string>,
    store map<string,array<map<string,string>>>)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.openx.data.jsonserde.JsonSerDe'
STORED AS TEXTFILE;

CREATE TABLE s1 (
count string,
usage string
)
ROW FORMAT SERDE
'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'
STORED
AS TEXTFILE;
load data local inpath '/home/work/s1.txt' overwrite into table s1;
select from s1;
CREATE TABLE s2 (
count string,
usage string,
pkg map
<string,string>
)
ROW FORMAT SERDE
'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'
STORED
AS TEXTFILE;
load data local inpath '/home/work/s2.txt' overwrite into table s2;
select
from s2;

CREATE TABLE s3 (
count string,
usage string,
pkg map
<string,string>,
languages array
<string>
)
ROW FORMAT SERDE
'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'
STORED
AS TEXTFILE;
load data local inpath '/home/work/s3.txt' overwrite into table s3;
select from s3;
CREATE TABLE s4 (
count string,
usage string,
pkg map
<string,string>,
languages array
<string>,
store map
<string,array<map<string,string>>>
)
ROW FORMAT SERDE
'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'
STORED
AS TEXTFILE;
load data local inpath '/home/work/s4.txt' overwrite into table s4;
select
from s4;

CREATE TABLE s5 (
store map
<string,array<map<string,string>>>
)
ROW FORMAT SERDE
'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'
STORED
AS TEXTFILE;
load data local inpath '/home/work/s5.txt' overwrite into table s5;
select * from s5;

CREATE TABLE s6 (
store map
<string,array<string>>
)
ROW FORMAT SERDE
'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'
STORED
AS TEXTFILE;
load data local inpath '/home/work/s6.txt' overwrite into table s6;
select * from s6;

这个 Serde hive 自带,路径为 $HIVE_HOME/hcatalog/share/hcatalog/hive-hcatalog-core-1.2.1.jar,它也存在其它问题:不支持数据文件中的空行