title: Kafka Connect Hive integration does not create Hive table
body: <p>I have the following kafka connector config:</p>
  <pre><code>{
    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;some-topic-connector&quot;,
    &quot;config&quot;: {
      &quot;connector.class&quot;: &quot;io.confluent.connect.hdfs.HdfsSinkConnector&quot;,
      &quot;tasks.max&quot;: &quot;1&quot;,
      &quot;topics&quot;: &quot;some-topic&quot;,
      &quot;hdfs.url&quot;: &quot;hdfs://hadoopams1&quot;,
      &quot;logs.dir&quot;: &quot;apps/kafka-connect-preview/some-topic.logs&quot;,
      &quot;topics.dir&quot;: &quot;apps/kafka-connect-preview/some-topic.db&quot;,
      &quot;hadoop.conf.dir&quot;: &quot;/etc/hadoop/conf&quot;,
      &quot;flush.size&quot;: &quot;1000000&quot;,
      &quot;rotate.interval.ms&quot;: &quot;3600000&quot;,
      &quot;rotate.schedule.interval.ms&quot;: &quot;86400000&quot;,
      &quot;hive.integration&quot;: &quot;true&quot;,
      &quot;hive.metastore.uris&quot;: &quot;thrift://metastore-1.hadoop-1.foobar.com:9083&quot;,
      &quot;hive.database&quot;: &quot;preview&quot;,
      &quot;locale&quot;: &quot;en_GB&quot;,
      &quot;timezone&quot;: &quot;Europe/Berlin&quot;,
      &quot;key.converter&quot;: &quot;org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.StringConverter&quot;,
      &quot;value.converter&quot;: &quot;io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter&quot;,
      &quot;value.converter.schema.registry.url&quot;: &quot;http://schema-registry.preview.foobar.com&quot;,
      &quot;schema.compatibility&quot;: &quot;BACKWARD&quot;,
      &quot;partitioner.class&quot;: &quot;io.confluent.connect.storage.partitioner.TimeBasedPartitioner&quot;,
      &quot;partition.duration.ms&quot;: &quot;86400000&quot;,
      &quot;path.format&quot;: &quot;'dt'=YYYYMMdd&quot;,
      &quot;partition.field.name&quot;: &quot;dt&quot;
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  <p>I've verified that the data is written to HDFS successfully, but for some reason the table in Hive is not being created. From the logs, I can't see any errors in Kafka Connect.</p>
  <p>What am I doing wrong? Is there some configuration or a requirement that I'm missing?</p>