# SerDeInfo
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Information about a serialization/deserialization program (SerDe) that serves as an extractor and loader.

## Contents
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 ** Name **   <a name="Glue-Type-SerDeInfo-Name"></a>
Name of the SerDe.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*`   
Required: No

 ** Parameters **   <a name="Glue-Type-SerDeInfo-Parameters"></a>
These key-value pairs define initialization parameters for the SerDe.  
Type: String to string map  
Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.  
Key Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*`   
Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512000.  
Required: No

 ** SerializationLibrary **   <a name="Glue-Type-SerDeInfo-SerializationLibrary"></a>
Usually the class that implements the SerDe. An example is `org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.columnar.ColumnarSerDe`.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*`   
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\+\+](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/glue-2017-03-31/SerDeInfo) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/glue-2017-03-31/SerDeInfo) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/glue-2017-03-31/SerDeInfo) 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Glue. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query glue` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).