For the convenience to access Hive from clients in various languages, the Hive developers created Hive Server, which is a Thrift service. The currently well-used version is known as Hive Server 2.

To write a Hive Server 2 client in Go, we need to use the thrift command to compile the Thrift service definition file TCLIService.thrift from Hive Server 2 codebase, into Go source code:

curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hive/rel/release-3.1.3/service-rpc/if/TCLIService.thrift > TCLIService.thrift

According to their blog post, the Hive developers recommends to use Thrift v0.14.1 to generate the Hive's auto-generated Thrift code:

docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/work -w /work \
    anthonyroussel/thrift:0.14.1 \
    thrift -r --gen go TCLIService.thrift

The above command generates Go source code in the subdirectory ./gen-go/tcliservice.

It doesn't look very probable for the Hive team to upgrade the Thrift version or the TCLIService.thrift file, so we don't expect that you might need to run the above command, and we include the generated Go source files in this Git repo.