@Deprecated // @deprecated in favour of {@link HCatTable.#serdeParam(Map<String, String>)}.
    // To be removed in Hive 0.16.
    public Builder serdeParam(String paramName, String value) {
      hcatTable.serdeParam(paramName, value);
      return this;
    }
used for setting arbitrary SerDe parameter
hcatalog/webhcat/java-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/api/HCatCreateTableDesc.java