A few weeks ago a fix for this issue was merged, it requires using the new web UI security feature, which will hold onto a session while you are logged in. [1]
You can try to build the tip of master yourself or wait for the upcoming 1.5.0 release to try it out. [1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-3624 On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Spoutable <j...@spoutable.com> wrote: > We are using the REST API from nodejs and need to issue some create table > statements that are a different format from the default for the system > (currently Parquet). We cant issue an alter system command to change the > store.format globally. > > I tried to issue multiple requests with a alter session set > `store.format`='json'; > and i tried to have multiple statements in the the same request separated > by semi colon. Neither of those worked. > > As a last resort i looked at the code in QueryWrapper.java and it looks > like its just 1 query per request and no session persistence or anything > like that going on between requests to the REST api. I tried to follow the > code down through the DrillUserPrincipal and DrillClient and UserClient but > ran out of patience. It doesnt look like there is any notion of ‘session’ > in the sense of ‘alter session’ statments. > > Does anybody have a workaround for this? > If not, does anybody have a suggestion on what change I could make for > supporting this in a way that would be acceptable to the project? > > Thanks in advance.
