Hi, I'm fairly new to Hadoop, but not to Apache, and I'm having a newbie kind of issue browsing HDFS files. I have written an Apache Commons VFS (Virtual File System) browser for the Apache Pivot GUI framework (I'm the PMC Chair for Pivot: full disclosure). And now I'm trying to get this browser to work with HDFS to do HDFS browsing from our application. I'm running into a problem, which seems sort of basic, so I thought I'd ask here...
So, I downloaded Hadoop 2.3.0 from one of the mirrors, and was able to track down sort of the minimum set of .jars necessary to at least (try to) connect using Commons VFS 2.1: commons-collections-3.2.1.jar commons-configuration-1.6.jar commons-lang-2.6.jar commons-vfs2-2.1-SNAPSHOT.jar guava-11.0.2.jar hadoop-auth-2.3.0.jar hadoop-common-2.3.0.jar log4j-1.2.17.jar slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar slf4j-log4j12-1.7.5.jar What's happening now is that I instantiated the HdfsProvider this way: private static DefaultFileSystemManager manager = null; static { manager = new DefaultFileSystemManager(); try { manager.setFilesCache(new DefaultFilesCache()); manager.addProvider("hdfs", new HdfsFileProvider()); manager.setFileContentInfoFactory(new FileContentInfoFilenameFactory()); manager.setFilesCache(new SoftRefFilesCache()); manager.setReplicator(new DefaultFileReplicator()); manager.setCacheStrategy(CacheStrategy.ON_RESOLVE); manager.init(); } catch (final FileSystemException e) { throw new RuntimeException(Intl.getString("object#manager.setupError"), e); } } Then, I try to browse into an HDFS system this way: String url = String.format("hdfs://%1$s:%2$d/%3$s", "hadoop-master ", 50070, hdfsPath); return manager.resolveFile(url); Note: the client is running on Windows 7 (but could be any system that runs Java), and the target has been one of several Hadoop clusters on Ubuntu VMs (basically the same thing happens no matter which Hadoop installation I try to hit). So I'm guessing the problem is in my client configuration. This attempt to basically just connect to HDFS results in a bunch of error messages in the log file, which looks like it is trying to do user validation on the local machine instead of against the Hadoop (remote) cluster. Apr 11,2014 18:27:38.640 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG FileObjectManager: Trying to resolve file reference 'hdfs://hadoop-master:50070/' Apr 11,2014 18:27:38.953 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) INFO org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.deprecation: fs.default.name is deprecated. Instead, use fs.defaultFS Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.078 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG MutableMetricsFactory: field org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MutableRate org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation$UgiMetrics.loginSuccess with annotation @org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.annotation.Metric(valueName=Time, value=[Rate of successful kerberos logins and latency (milliseconds)], about=, type=DEFAULT, always=false, sampleName=Ops) Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.094 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG MutableMetricsFactory: field org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MutableRate org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation$UgiMetrics.loginFailure with annotation @org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.annotation.Metric(valueName=Time, value=[Rate of failed kerberos logins and latency (milliseconds)], about=, type=DEFAULT, always=false, sampleName=Ops) Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.094 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG MutableMetricsFactory: field org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MutableRate org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation$UgiMetrics.getGroups with annotation @org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.annotation.Metric(valueName=Time, value=[GetGroups], about=, type=DEFAULT, always=false, sampleName=Ops) Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.094 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG MetricsSystemImpl: UgiMetrics, User and group related metrics Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.344 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG Groups: Creating new Groups object Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.344 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG NativeCodeLoader: Trying to load the custom-built native-hadoop library... Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.360 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG NativeCodeLoader: Failed to load native-hadoop with error: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no hadoop in java.library.path Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.360 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG NativeCodeLoader: java.library.path=.... <bunch of stuff> Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.360 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.375 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG JniBasedUnixGroupsMappingWithFallback: Falling back to shell based Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.375 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG JniBasedUnixGroupsMappingWithFallback: Group mapping impl=org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.375 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) ERROR Shell: Failed to detect a valid hadoop home directory: HADOOP_HOME or hadoop.home.dir are not set. java.io.IOException: HADOOP_HOME or hadoop.home.dir are not set. at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.checkHadoopHome(Shell.java:265) at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.<clinit>(Shell.java:290) at org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils.<clinit>(StringUtils.java:76) at org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.parseStaticMapping(Groups.java:92) at org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.<init>(Groups.java:76) at org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.getUserToGroupsMappingService(Groups.java:239) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.initialize(UserGroupInformation.java:255) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.ensureInitialized(UserGroupInformation.java:232) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromSubject(UserGroupInformation.java:718) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.getLoginUser(UserGroupInformation.java:703) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser(UserGroupInformation.java:605) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache$Key.<init>(FileSystem.java:2473) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache$Key.<init>(FileSystem.java:2465) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:2331) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:369) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:168) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.hdfs.HdfsFileSystem.resolveFile(HdfsFileSystem.java:115) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.findFile(AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.java:84) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.findFile(AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.java:64) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager.java:700) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager.java:656) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager.java:609) Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.391 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) ERROR Shell: Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path: Could not locate executable null\bin\winutils.exe in the Hadoop binaries. java.io.IOException: Could not locate executable null\bin\winutils.exe in the Hadoop binaries. Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.391 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG Groups: Group mapping impl=org.apache.hadoop.security.JniBasedUnixGroupsMappingWithFallback; cacheTimeout=300000; warningDeltaMs=5000 Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.469 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG UserGroupInformation: hadoop login Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.469 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG UserGroupInformation: hadoop login commit Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.751 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG UserGroupInformation: using local user:NTUserPrincipal: <user_name> Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.751 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) DEBUG UserGroupInformation: UGI loginUser:whiro01 (auth:SIMPLE) Apr 11,2014 18:27:39.813 GMT T[AWT-EventQueue-0](26) ERROR HdfsFileSystem: Error connecting to filesystem hdfs://hadoop-master:50070/: No FileSystem for scheme: hdfs java.io.IOException: No FileSystem for scheme: hdfs at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.getFileSystemClass(FileSystem.java:2304) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.createFileSystem(FileSystem.java:2311) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.access$200(FileSystem.java:90) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.getInternal(FileSystem.java:2350) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:2332) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:369) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:168) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.hdfs.HdfsFileSystem.resolveFile(HdfsFileSystem.java:115) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.findFile(AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.java:84) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.findFile(AbstractOriginatingFileProvider.java:64) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager.java:700) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager.java:656) at org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileSystemManager.resolveFile(DefaultFileSystemManager.java:609) So, my guess is that I don't have enough configuration setup on my client machine to tell Hadoop that the authentication is to be done at the remote end ....?? So, I'm trying to track down what the configuration info might be. Hoping to see if anyone here can see past the Commons VFS stuff that you probably don't understand to be able to tell me what other Hadoop/HDFS files / configuration I need to get this working. Note: I want to build a GUI component that can browse to arbitrary HDFS installations, so I can't really be setting up a hard-coded XML file for each potential Hadoop cluster I might connect to .... Thanks, ~Roger Whitcomb