A little spoon feeding required, how to import complex json into hive. Json file in the format of:{\"some-headers\":\"\", \"dump\":[{\"item-id\":\"item-1\"},{\"item-id\":\
{\"some-headers\":\"\", \"dump\":[{\"item-id\":\"item-1\"},{\"item-id\":\
You can import JSON into Hive by implementing the HiveSerDe.
This link serves as a sample implementation.
https://github.com/rcongiu/Hive-JSON-Serde
You can also refer to these links
How do you make a HIVE table out of JSON data?