Hi Rohit, Please see answers inline.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:39 AM, rohit sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on integrating Sentry with an under development data > processing engine and had few question regarding the integration. > > 1. After looking into current integrations I understand I need to develop > three modules: Model, Binding and Processing engine. I want to build these > jars under our project for current testing purpose rather than in Sentry > repo. Can sentry work with external jars for these modules and if yes, then > how to make sentry aware of them ? Sentry uses HADOOP_CLASSPATH, so you can add the locations of the jars to this. > > 2. I am assuming that packaging the above three modules in a single jar > should be enough. Do I need to package them in three separate jars ? > > You can have it in the same jar as long as it is available to both binding and sentry. > 3. The model defines authorizable entities and action allowed on them. Is > it possible to define different action for individual entities ? > > Today, this is possible to achieve in the binding code. See hive binding for example. Might be a good feature improvement to support it in the model itself. > 4. I see that the current release is 1.6rc0 and 1.7 is under development. > Do you have any expected timeframe for 1.7 release ? > > Thanks for your interest! I see that community is discussing the 1.7.0 release, but I do not see a time frame yet on that thread. Feel free to comment on that thread on when do you need it. > Any help with these questions will be highly appreciated. > > Thanks. > -- Sravya Tirukkovalur
