Agreed.  The tool looks very cool.  I would prefer to see this functionality
built into the hypertable command interpreter, so that we don't have to keep
switching back-and-forth between tools to inspect the system.

- Doug

2008/12/15 Luke <[email protected]>

>
> On Dec 15, 1:41 am, "孔令华" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Luke,
> >
> > Thank you very much!!  It works. And I think the new config system is
> > something like the getopt with some groups of predefined options, right?
>
> Yeah, it's similar but more extensible and provides better validation.
>
> > The only problem is that if I want to read some items from the
> config-file
> > without creating a client, is there any proper interface?
>
> Yes. I did have that use case in mind. You can create any properties
> object use
> {{{
>    PropertiesPtr props = new Properties(); // I should provide a
> short cut here
>    props->load(config_filename, Config::file_desc());
> }}}
>
> So the only interface difference with the old properties object for
> 'load' is the second config file description object, which provides
> default values and validation of the config file.
>
> > http://groups.google.com/group/hypertable-dev/web/htdump.tgz?hl=en
> > This program is written by us used to monitor the hypertable cluster. And
> I
> > cannot find an elegant way to make it work with the new config system.
> And
> > you can use it to help me to learn the new config system, thank you very
> > much.
>
> The least disruptive changes would use the properties object like the
> above. There are more elegant changes (shorter code, better defaults/
> validation of the properties) of course. The program looks useful. Do
> you mind that we include this in the src/cc/Tools, so that we can
> maintain it when the interface changes (we have some major hyperspace
> changes in the works that would require changes to this program)
>
> __Luke
>
> >
> > Best wishes!
> >
> > 2008/12/13 Luke <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Dec 12, 4:38 am, Phoenix <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Hi Doug,
> >
> > > > Oh, sorry. Java6 was mentioned. I missed it.
> >
> > > > And now it seems that the config is a problem for me. Can you give
> > > > some instructions?  And the apache example is out of date. Perhaps
> > > > it's time to update it.
> >
> > > The apache examples should still work as is. The only thing that
> > > prevent it from working properly is probably the timeout changes from
> > > second to milliseconds, so the RETRY_TIMEOUT in the load program
> > > should be 30000 now. I've updated the wiki to reflect that.
> >
> > > > Thank you. :)
> >
> > > > Best wishes
> >
> > > > On Dec 12, 7:16 pm, Phoenix <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > > Hi Doug,
> >
> > > > > According to the src, now the config-options need something called
> > > > > Policy which makes it hard to write client program.
> >
> > > > > In older versions I can run a client program on another machine
> that
> > > > > just needs a config file. But now it seems hard to do so.  The
> > > > > configurations is get from the Config namespace, I donnot know how
> to
> > > > > force it read from a local config file.  I tried the Properties
> ::load
> > > > > but failed. A Properties constructor which accepts a config file as
> a
> > > > > parameter may help a lot.
> >
> > > > > Perhaps we need more and update examples. And also the Makefile now
> > > > > needs more libraries to link with. An example is helpful.
> >
> > > > > BTW, the DfsBroker is using java6 now. It would be better to
> mention
> > > > > this in the log.  As the earlier version can be used with java5.
> >
> > > > > Best wishes.
> >
> > > > > On Dec 9, 5:07 am, "Doug Judd" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > > > This latest version of Hypertable is incompatible with older
> > > versions.  Here
> > > > > > is a list of the incompatibilities:
> >
> > > > > > 1. All timeouts have changed from seconds to milliseconds
> > > > > > 2. Hyperspace data format has changed
> > > > > > 3. Network wire protocol has changed
> >
> > > > > > To use this release, you will have to start with a clean
> database.
> > >  If you
> > > > > > have any pre-existing config files, you will have to modify them
> by
> > > changing
> > > > > > all of the time properties from *seconds* to *milliseconds*.
>  Also,
> > > there
> > > > > > are a few more build dependencies:
> >
> > > > > > SIGAR (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sigar/)
> > > > > > libevent (only required for optional ThriftBroker build)
> > > > > > thrift (only required for optional ThriftBroker build)
> >
> > > > > > - Doug
> >
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