That's fine. My 0.19.3 setup started up the rest server by default on port 60010 (at least, I don't remember doing anything to turn it on) so I had assumed the 0.20 one would as well. As you say, it's easy enough to fire one up...
--Eric Tschetter a Ona Ta hu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:06 PM, stack<st...@duboce.net> wrote: > Hmm. I remember in old days that we used to deploy the REST api on the > master but that was shut off a while ago. Thought was that no one was using > it -- sorry (I don't have the hbase issue to hand) -- and its easy enough > putting up an explicit REST server if wanted. > > I'll let the REST lads talk to how different new API is. > > St.Ack > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Eric Tschetter <eched...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ah, so the rest server doesn't start up on it's own anymore with 0.20? >> >> I'm looking forward to messing around with stargate, but I already >> have some stuff that works with the old REST interface, so I'd like to >> make sure that's still working before moving on :). >> >> --Eric >> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:09 PM, stack<st...@duboce.net> wrote: >> > Run: >> > >> > ./bin/hbase rest >> > >> > It outputs options. >> > >> > For example: >> > >> > ./bin/hbase rest start >> > >> > ... will start it in current console (on port 60050 by default). >> > >> > To start it as background process writing a pid, etc., do >> > ./bin/hbase-daemon.sh start rest. >> > >> > That said, REST story is interesting in 0.20.0 in that the 0.19.0 REST >> was >> > redone by Brian Beggs. >> > >> > Then Andrew Purtell did a new fancy REST server as a contrib called >> stargate >> > (with help from Brian Beggs). >> > >> > Documentation on the latter is in javadoc. There are still a few pieces >> > missing but they are arriving fast. >> > >> > St.Ack >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Eric Tschetter <eched...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> I've been exploring HBase recently and had originally set up a 0.19 >> >> cluster for prototyping, heard that 0.20 has all sorts of performance >> >> enhancements and setup another 0.20 cluster on a separate dev >> >> environment. Everything appears to be working fine, excepting that >> >> the REST API appears to be non-existent. >> >> >> >> I'm not sure if I have to do anything special to make it work, but >> >> from what I can tell there should be a servlet under >> >> >> >> http://hbase-master:port/api/ >> >> >> >> However, whenever I access that it just loads up a directory listing of >> >> >> >> META-INF/ >> >> WEB-INF/ >> >> >> >> If I try to access anything under /api/, it returns 404s. >> >> >> >> The javadoc for org.apache.hadoop.hbase.rest doesn't appear to be >> >> different from 0.19 (it does list the default port as 60050 instead of >> >> 60010), so I'm not sure if I am missing some new configuration or if >> >> there is something else wrong. >> >> >> >> None of the updates since the revision I built from seem to touch >> >> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.rest, though some of them deal with stargate. >> >> Is the old API gone? >> >> >> >> --Eric >> >> >> > >> >
