HIVE-1360. It has been a long-standing request for UDFs to be able to

[slycoder]

access parameter values. This not only enables significant performance
improvement possibilities, it also allows for fundamentally richer
behavior, such as allowing the output type of a UDF to depend on its
inputs.

The strategy in this diff is to introduce the notion of a
ConstantObjectInspector, like a regular ObjectInspector except that it
encapsulates a constant value and knows what this constant value is.
These COIs are created through a factory method by ExprNodeConstantDesc
during plan generation hence UDFs will be able to capture these constant
values during the initialize phase. Furthermore, because these
ConstantObjectInspectors are simply subinterfaces of ObjectInspector,
UDFs which are not "constant-aware" receive ObjectInspectors which
also implement the same interfaces they are used to, so no special
handling needs to be done for existing UDFs.

An example UDF which uses this new functionality is also included in
this diff. NAMED_STRUCT is like STRUCT except that it also allows users
to specify the names of the fields of the struct, something previously
not possible because the names of the fields must be known at compile
time.

[belugabehr]

Issue fixed through manual patch process:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1360