Unfortunately it doesn't look like The org.apache.hadoop.gateway.shell.Hadoop class is setup in such a way to provide access to the internal HttpClient to provide the access you need. You also might want to take a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-695 which is more of a server side solution to the problem. If I were going to try and make an enhancement to support this I can think of several approaches.
1. Change the Hadoop class to take a HttpClient object as an input parameter to the constructor. 2. Change the Hadoop class to make createClient protected so subclasses could customize the client. 3. Extend AbstractRequest with a socketTimeout attribute and have the various concrete implementations do request.setConfig(requestConfig) where requestConfig is something like RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom().setSocketTimeout(TIMEOUT_MILLIS).build(); from the HttpClient API. This would be done just prior to the "return new Response( execute( request ) );" found in most of those concrete implementations. From: chris snow <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 5:18 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: How to access the HTTPClient object? I have a basic connectivity test for hbase: env = System.getenv() session = Hadoop.login( env.gateway, env.username, env.password ) println "System version : " + HBase.session(session).systemVersion().now().string println "Cluster version : " + HBase.session(session).clusterVersion().now().string println "Status : " + HBase.session(session).status().now().string However, there is an issue on the server that is causing the connection to hang. Is it possible to get access to the HTTPClient object so that I can set a timeout? E.g. session = Hadoop.login( env.gateway, env.username, env.password ) session.httpClient.params.setConnectionTimeout(10000) Many thanks, Chris
