diff --git a/hoodie-cli/pom.xml b/hoodie-cli/pom.xml
index c20792e68..edc2773e9 100644
--- a/hoodie-cli/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-cli/pom.xml
@@ -193,6 +193,16 @@
${junit.version}
test
+
+
+ commons-dbcp
+ commons-dbcp
+
+
+ joda-time
+ joda-time
+ 2.9.6
+
diff --git a/hoodie-cli/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/cli/utils/HiveUtil.java b/hoodie-cli/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/cli/utils/HiveUtil.java
index 1b7267d4a..c348fbb2a 100644
--- a/hoodie-cli/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/cli/utils/HiveUtil.java
+++ b/hoodie-cli/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/cli/utils/HiveUtil.java
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
package com.uber.hoodie.cli.utils;
import com.uber.hoodie.common.model.HoodieTableMetadata;
-import com.uber.hoodie.hadoop.HoodieInputFormat;
import org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
@@ -62,7 +61,6 @@ public class HiveUtil {
//stmt.execute("set mapred.job.queue.name=");
stmt.execute("set hive.input.format=org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat" );
stmt.execute("set hive.stats.autogather=false" );
- System.out.println("Class " + HoodieInputFormat.class.getName());
rs = stmt.executeQuery(
"select count(`_hoodie_commit_time`) as cnt from " + dbName + "." + source
.getTableName());
diff --git a/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/GenericHoodiePayload.java b/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/GenericHoodiePayload.java
index 6144f99d4..263963ef7 100644
--- a/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/GenericHoodiePayload.java
+++ b/hoodie-common/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/common/GenericHoodiePayload.java
@@ -21,15 +21,11 @@ import com.uber.hoodie.common.model.HoodieRecordPayload;
import org.apache.avro.Schema;
import org.apache.avro.generic.IndexedRecord;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
-import org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONException;
-import org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONObject;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
-import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
-import java.util.Date;
import java.util.zip.Deflater;
import java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream;
import java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream;
@@ -56,22 +52,6 @@ public class GenericHoodiePayload implements HoodieRecordPayload