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Hemanth Yamijala commented on HADOOP-2861:
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There are 2 models listed above:
Allen and Lohit's model of: hod <sub-command> [options]
and
Arkady's model of: hod [-a | -d | -l | -i ] [options]
I like Allen's and Lohit's suggestion better. It seems a clearer model to treat
the CLI as: command sub-command <options> model. It also has the nice
side-effect of being similar to Hadoop commands. So, we will have:
hod allocate -n num-of-nodes -D cluster-dir [other options]
hod deallocate -D cluster-dir [other options]
hod list [other options]
hod info -D cluster-dir [other options]
If we want to type less, we could also have
hod allocate num-of-nodes cluster-dir [other options] #reads like allocate 5
nodes and put info in cluster-dir
but that kind of brings positional arguments. So that may not be that
preferable.
These form the core interface of HOD. 4 simple operations which can be combined
to do other things.
In that spirit (and related to another issue that Arkady had raised), I am
thinking we should do away with the script option. It is essentially a wrapper
- that's all. Now, to help users, we can have a wrapper script that is part of
HOD. Something like:
hod-script -n num-of-nodes -D cluster-dir -s script-file [-z] [other options] #
-z means don't deallocate.
But this would a simple shell script that translates to something like:
hod allocate -n num-of-nodes -D cluster-dir
export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=cluster-dir
/bin/sh -c script-file
# if -z is specified
hod deallocate -D cluster-dir
The script option would not be a part of the core HOD interface. We thus can
keep the HOD interface simple, and doing one thing well.
We are trying to address this issue ASAP. Please do comment with what model you
prefer.
> [HOD] Improve the user interface for the HOD commands
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-2861
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2861
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: contrib/hod
> Affects Versions: 0.16.0
> Reporter: Hemanth Yamijala
> Fix For: 0.16.1
>
>
> The current command line for HOD is not user-friendly or conventional.
> Following improvements are required:
> - We shouldn't require the quotes around the operation.
> - Can we define a HOD_CLUSTER_DIR environment variable which would be used by
> default ?
> With these two, one can imagine a very simple command line for HOD. Something
> like:
> hod-allocate 3
> hod-deallocate
> hod-allocate 3 ~/hod-clusters/test
> hod-deallocate ~/hod-clusters/test
> This would also be backward compatible for people who're used to the current
> model.
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