Great! Glad to hear that you were successful in getting things up and running. I hope to have some simple examples of how to directly access Blur through thrift up on the wiki over the weekend.
Aaron On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:50 PM, A. J. Rajkumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Folks > > This is very COOL. I did exactly the following, but downloading the > tar file and > following up from "Building" and finally, I was able to follow thro till > the end up to > > blur> create testTableName file:///data/testTableName 1 > blur> add testTableName fieldName:testing > blur> search testTableName fieldName:testing > Totalhits 1 > -------------------------- > fieldName | testing > > I got it working up to the above, VERY VERY COOL and thank you > Aaron for your detailed information. > > Now, what else can I do to help, please let me know. > > Cheers > Joseph Rajkumar > > PS: For those curious, I am on a imac, running OSX-10.6.X, using > hadoop-1.0.4 and zookeeper 3.4.5. > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I think that you are on the trunk, which is still on the 0.1.3. If you > > cloned from git, run the following command "git checkout 0.2-dev". If > you > > didn't clone, this link will get you the lastest code from the 0.2-dev > > branch, which the QuickStart should be accurate for this branch. > > > > > > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-blur.git;a=snapshot;h=refs/heads/0.2-dev;sf=tgz > > > > If you download this tar you will then want to pickup at the "Building" > > section on the http://wiki.apache.org/blur/QuickStart guide. > > > > Let me know how this goes. > > > > Also, as an FYI the Apache mail lists strip out all HTML content in the > > mail messages, so bolding things won't work. Putting "*" or a few blanks > > lines in between comments and previous messages will work fine. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Aaron > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:41 PM, A. J. Rajkumar <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Hi Folks > > > > > > Let me respond to each of these in-line (in bold). > > > > > > Regards > > > Joseph Rajkumar > > > ====================== ===================== > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Joseph, > > > > > > > > Welcome! Hopefully I can help and answer a few questions. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:01 PM, A. J. Rajkumar < > [email protected] > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Folks > > > > > > > > > > I am trying to get started with Blur as a user and have a > number > > > of > > > > > questions:- > > > > > > > > > > 1) Which is the proper version of hadoop that plays well with the > > > latest > > > > > release of blur which I have obtained > > > > > from this link:- git clone > http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ > > > > incubator-blur.git > > > > > > > > > > When I downloaded using the above link I get the "Version 0.1.3", see > > the > > > snippet from the pom.xml file below:- > > > > > > *<groupId>org.apache.blur</groupId> > > > <artifactId>blur</artifactId> > > > <packaging>pom</packaging> > > > <version>0.1.3</version> > > > <name>Blur</name>* > > > > > > *If I want to get the 0.2.0-SNAPSHOT version, give me the correct URL > to > > > use with git, so I can get that.* > > > > > > Any of the Apache Hadoop versions 1.0.x will work and all of the > Cloudera > > > > cd3 versions will work. Basically any version of Hadoop based on > > 0.20.x > > > + > > > > with append support should work. > > > > > > > > *I have 1.0.4, which makes it one less piece to worry about. * > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2) I have zookeeper version 3.4.5 running. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Good, that is the best version of ZooKeeper to be running. I > recently > > > ran > > > > into a problem with 3.4.4 on OSX, it was fixed in 3.4.5. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3) I do not have hadoop running, but I have hadoop-1.0.4 and set > the > > > > > HADOOP_PATH in the blur conf directory. > > > > > > > > > > > > > That is fine as long as you specify a file:/// based uri for table > > > storage, > > > > when you create a table. e.g. "file:///local-dir/tables/table-dir". > > If > > > > after you get up and running you would like to run blur against a > > > > hdfs instance then obviously you will need hdfs running. And the > > storage > > > > uri will change to something like: > > > > "hdfs://hostname:port/blur/tables/table-dir". > > > > > > > > *I will worry about this when I get "blur" to work.* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 4) The QuickStart at this link > > http://wiki.apache.org/blur/QuickStartis > > > > > outdated. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, is it because of #5 or is there another problem with the > document? > > > If > > > > there is anything missing or not accurate I definitely want to get > > those > > > > fixed. Let us know. > > > > > > > > There is no such thing as 0.2.0-SNAPSHOT, see the snippet from the > > > pom.xml > > > > file abouve. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 5) When I run the command: $ bin/blur shell localhost:40020 > > > > > > > > > > > > > I get the following error:- > > > > > > > > > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: shell > > > > > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: shell > > > > > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) > > > > > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > > > > > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) > > > > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > > > > > at > sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > > > > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, I just added this to the 0.2-dev branch. ( > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-blur.git;a=blob;f=src/distribution/src/main/scripts/bin/blur;h=c2ea2540da9411581f285286cf5b860cc642df3e;hb=0.2-dev > > > > ) > > > > > > > > With you new "blur" script, I get this new class not found error: See > > > below:- > > > > > > Marc-Anthonys-iMac:bin marcanthony$ ./blur2 shell > > > > > > *Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > > > org/apache/blur/shell/Main > > > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.blur.shell.Main > > > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) > > > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > > > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) > > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > > > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)* > > > > > > *In which "jar" is this "shell/Main" defined. I printed the > > BLUR_CLASSPATH > > > and all the jars in the lib directory are included > > > but still I get this error.* > > > > > > > > > > Could you look at the src/pom.xml and validate that the version you > > have > > > > built with is 0.2.0-SNAPSHOT? > > > > > > > > Should look something like: > > > > > > > > <groupId>org.apache.blur</groupId> > > > > <artifactId>blur</artifactId> > > > > <version>0.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version> > > > > <packaging>pom</packaging> > > > > > > > > If it's not the right version check in git that you are on the > 0.2-dev > > > > branch. "git status" > > > > > > > > *See above, I have version "0.1.3 and not 0.2.0-SNAPSHOT * > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 6) Earlier I had a problem with "ssh localhost", when it asked me > > for a > > > > > password, but I have fixed that problem now. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Great! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 7) Do I have to have to have hadoop running and which version of > > > hadoop? > > > > > > > > > > > > > To setup a simple single instance you do not have to have Hadoop > > running. > > > > Only the libraries are needed, once you move beyond a single > instance > > > you > > > > have to run HDFS. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > Joseph Rajkumar > > > > > > > > > > PS: Any help is greatly appreciated and by the way, do you guys > meet > > in > > > > > Reston on Monday or Wednesday and at what time, 4:30 PM EST?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > We have not had any meetups in a couple of months mainly due to the > > > > Holidays and people schedules being busy. However I'm for setting > one > > up > > > > for next week on Wednesday, perhaps 4:30 is a little early? 5 or > 5:30? > > > I > > > > will send out an email on the mail list to see what would be best. > > > > > > > > *I rather prefer later hours. I like 5:30 PM EST the best time for > me. > > > > Wednesday is just fine.* > > > > > > > > > >
