@Deprecated // @deprecated in favour of {@link HCatTable.#getTableType()}. To be removed in Hive 0.16.
  public boolean getExternal() {

    return this.hcatTable.getTabletype()
                         .equalsIgnoreCase(HCatTable.Type.EXTERNAL_TABLE.toString());
  }
Gets the external.

@return the external
hcatalog/webhcat/java-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/api/HCatCreateTableDesc.java