Hi Peter,
Livy 0.6 has a new feature to give each session a name:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-livy/pull/48
Would this feature be useful in your usecase?
Thanks,
Meisam
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 8:51 AM Peter Wicks (pwicks)
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> Greetings,
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> I have a custom service that connects to Livy, v0.4 soon to be v0.5 once
> we go to HDP3. If sessions already exist it logs the session ID’s and
> starts using them, if sessions don’t exist it creates new ones. The problem
> is the account used to launch the Livy sessions is not unique to this
> service, nor is the kind of session. So sometimes it grabs other people’s
> sessions and absconds off with them. Also, there are multiple instances of
> the service, running under the same account, and they are not supposed to
> use each other’s sessions… that’s not working out so well.
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> The service names the sessions, but I can’t find any way to retrieve
> detailed session data so that I can update the service to check if the Livy
> Session belongs to the service or not.
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> I found some older comments 2016/2017 about retrieving Livy sessions by
> name. I don’t really need that, I just want to be able to read the name
> through the regular sessions REST call.
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> Any REST calls I missed, or undocumented calls… that can help?
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> Thanks,
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> Peter
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> Ref:
> https://github.com/meisam/livy/wiki/Design-doc-for-Livy-41:-Accessing-sessions-by-name,
> https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/LIVY-41
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