@Deprecated // @deprecated in favour of {@link HCatTable.#fileFormat()}. To be removed in Hive 0.16.
  public String getFileFormat() {
    return this.hcatTable.fileFormat();
  }
Gets the file format.

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