Hive describe extended table return json

Question

Is there any way to run "describe extended table" in Hive and have the results returned in JSON, XML, or some easily parsed format? Or is there an existing parse in Java that can parse this type of format?

Table(tableName:test3, dbName:testdatabase, owner:johnsmith, createTime:1481135997, lastAccessTime:0, retention:0, sd:StorageDescriptor(cols:[FieldSchema(name:a, type:string, comment:""a,m)], location:hdfs://testcluster/apps/hive/warehouse/testdatabase/test3, inputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcInputFormat, outputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcOutputFormat, compressed:false, numBuckets:-1, serdeInfo:SerDeInfo(name:null, serializationLib:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcSerde, parameters:{serialization.format=1}), bucketCols:[], sortCols:[], parameters:{}, skewedInfo:SkewedInfo(skewedColNames:[], skewedColValues:[], skewedColValueLocationMaps:{}), storedAsSubDirectories:false), partitionKeys:[], parameters:{totalSize=0, numRows=0, rawDataSize=0, COLUMN_STATS_ACCURATE={"BASIC_STATS":"true"}, numFiles=0, transient_lastDdlTime=1481135997}, viewOriginalText:null, viewExpandedText:null, tableType:MANAGED_TABLE)

Answer 1

Maybe you can use hive.ddl.output.format to format output

set hive.ddl.output.format=json;
desc extended table;