/**
* Returns a list of the columns making up a table. The argument is a serialized
* TDescribeTableParams object. The return type is a serialised TDescribeTableResult object.
*
* @see Frontend#describeTable
*/
public byte[] describeTable(byte[] thriftDescribeTableParams) throws ImpalaException {
TDescribeTableParams params = new TDescribeTableParams();
deserializeThrift(params, thriftDescribeTableParams);
TDescribeTableResult result = new TDescribeTableResult();
result.setColumns(frontend.describeTable(params.getDb(), params.getTable_name()));
TSerializer serializer = new TSerializer(protocolFactory);
try {
return serializer.serialize(result);
} catch (TException e) {
throw new InternalException(e.getMessage());
}
}
