JsonSerde - ClassCastException

[randallwhitman]

Got ClassCastException with LazyString in JsonSerde with queries like the following:

create external table trips_by_origin_cell(leftlon double, botlat double, rightlon double, toplat double, totnum int, samedest int, pct double, destlhs double, destbot double, destrhs double, desttop double)
row format delimited fields terminated by '\t'
location '/user/rwhitman/out-trips-by-origin-cell';
create external table trip_origin_json  (totnum int, samedest int, pct double, destlhs double, destbot double, destrhs double, desttop double, shape binary)
row format serde 'com.esri.hadoop.hive.serde.JsonSerde'
stored as inputformat 'com.esri.json.hadoop.UnenclosedJsonInputFormat'
outputformat 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat'
location '/user/rwhitman/trip-origin-json';
insert overwrite table trip_origin_json select totnum, samedest, pct, destlhs, destbot, destrhs, desttop,
  ST_Polygon(leftlon,botlat, rightlon,botlat, rightlon,toplat, leftlon,toplat) from trips_by_origin_cell;

More detail of the exception:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazyString cannot be cast to org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable
        at com.esri.hadoop.hive.serde.JsonSerde.serialize(Unknown Source)

Candidate patch:

                Writable writable;
                //   = (Writable)fieldWritables.get(i);  // usually Text; exception on LazyString
                Object tmpObj = fieldWritables.get(i);  // usually Text; exception on LazyString
                if (tmpObj instanceof LazyPrimitive) {
                    writable = ((LazyPrimitive)(tmpObj)).getWritableObject();
                } else {
                    writable = (Writable)tmpObj;
                }
                //Float dummy = (Float)tmpObj;  // temporary test

                jsonGen.writeObjectField(columnNames.get(i), writable.toString());

[randallwhitman]

Patch has been checked in to branch jsonserde.

[randallwhitman]

Branch jsonserde has been merged to master.