Thrift Hive Metastore Client

A simple python thrift client of hive metastore, which is used to fetch table and schema information.

The class files are generated from Hive source using thrift. This project just makes a nice package of the generated code.

Usage

```bash >> tox -r -e py27

>> # install >> .tox/py27/bin/python setup.py sdist upload

>> # browse tables >> # get all tables >> .tox/py27/bin/thrift_hive_metastore localhost 9083

>> # get all tables and show their field definitions >> .tox/py27/bin/thrift_hive_metastore localhost 9083 -s

>> # get tables from a namespace >> .tox/py27/bin/thrift_hive_metastore localhost 9083 mynamesapce

>> # get tables from namesapces matching given pattern >> .tox/py27/bin/thrift_hive_metastore localhost 9083 my*

>> # get tables whose names matche a given pattern, from namesapces matching given pattern >> .tox/py27/bin/thrift_hive_metastore localhost 9083 my* mytable

```