kevinweil/elephant-bird — pull request #265 by pengfeng (2012-10-18 21:42:54+00:00)
Title: Add new ProtobufDeserializer with ProtobufStructObjectInspector.

The current ProtobufDeserializers in Hive and EB depend on the stock ReflectionObjectInspector and have various issues when reading protobuf data. We provide a new ProtobufStructObjectInspector to use native protobuf functions through its Descriptor interface instead of reflection-based method used in Hive.