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Carlos Valiente commented on HADOOP-4707:
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* The Block struct was missing the startOffset from LocatedBlock. This made it
somewhat useful for actually reading out of the middle of files. I'll submit a
patch for this once I aggregate a few more changes.
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Yep, sounds very good.
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Regarding the authentication issue, I would propose a somewhat major change. We
should add a struct called CallContext that looks something like this:
struct CallContext {
1:string user
2:list<string> groups
}
We should then add this as a parameter to every RPC, at least in the NameNode
service.
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I would prefer not to follow that route and leave the method signatures
untouched, for the following reasons:
# The identd approach is far from perfect, definitely, but it is more than
enough for my particular requirements.
# The Thrift IDL file, which I see as the main documentation source for the
exposed service, becomes cluttered.
# Although old clients would still be able to call the Thrift services, C++
clients generated from the new IDL source would get the extra argument in the
signature, and the user code would be less readable.
If peope are really concerned about authentication, perhaps it would be better
to add some kind of transport-level authentication support for Thrift itself
(like TLS- or SSL-enabled Thrift transports, for instance). Then on the server
side we could either start a {{org.apache.thrift.transport.TServerSocket}} or a
{{org.apache.thrift.transport.TSecureServerSocket}}, depending on some
configuration value, and then everyone would be catered for.
> Improvements to Hadoop Thrift bindings
> --------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-4707
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4707
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: contrib/thiftfs
> Affects Versions: 0.20.0
> Environment: Tested under Linux x86-64
> Reporter: Carlos Valiente
> Assignee: Carlos Valiente
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: all.diff, BlockManager.java, build_xml.diff,
> DefaultBlockManager.java, DFSBlockManager.java, gen.diff,
> HADOOP-4707-55c046a.txt, hadoop-4707-6bc958.txt, HADOOP-4707.diff,
> HADOOP-4707.patch, HADOOP-4707.patch, hadoopfs_thrift.diff,
> hadoopthriftapi.jar, HadoopThriftServer.java, HadoopThriftServer_java.diff,
> hdfs.py, hdfs_py_venky.diff, libthrift.jar, libthrift.jar, libthrift.jar
>
>
> I have made the following changes to hadoopfs.thrift:
> # Added namespaces for Python, Perl and C++.
> # Renamed parameters and struct members to camelCase versions to keep them
> consistent (in particular FileStatus{blockReplication,blockSize} vs
> FileStatus.{block_replication,blocksize}).
> # Renamed ThriftHadoopFileSystem to FileSystem. From the perspective of a
> Perl/Python/C++ user, 1) it is already clear that we're using Thrift, and 2)
> the fact that we're dealing with Hadoop is already explicit in the namespace.
> The usage of generated code is more compact and (in my opinion) clearer:
> {quote}
> *Perl*:
> use HadoopFS;
> my $client = HadoopFS::FileSystemClient->new(..);
> _instead of:_
> my $client = HadoopFS::ThriftHadoopFileSystemClient->new(..);
> *Python*:
> from hadoopfs import FileSystem
> client = FileSystem.Client(..)
> _instead of_
> from hadoopfs import ThriftHadoopFileSystem
> client = ThriftHadoopFileSystem.Client(..)
> (See also the attached diff [^scripts_hdfs_py.diff] for the
> new version of 'scripts/hdfs.py').
> *C++*:
> hadoopfs::FileSystemClient client(..);
> _instead of_:
> hadoopfs::ThriftHadoopFileSystemClient client(..);
> {quote}
> # Renamed ThriftHandle to FileHandle: As in 3, it is clear that we're dealing
> with a Thrift object, and its purpose (to act as a handle for file
> operations) is clearer.
> # Renamed ThriftIOException to IOException, to keep it simpler, and
> consistent with MalformedInputException.
> # Added explicit version tags to fields of ThriftHandle/FileHandle, Pathname,
> MalformedInputException and ThriftIOException/IOException, to improve
> compatibility of existing clients with future versions of the interface which
> might add new fields to those objects (like stack traces for the exception
> types, for instance).
> Those changes are reflected in the attachment [^hadoopfs_thrift.diff].
> Changes in generated Java, Python, Perl and C++ code are also attached in
> [^gen.diff]. They were generated by a Thrift checkout from trunk
> ([http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/thrift/trunk/]) as of revision
> 719697, plus the following Perl-related patches:
> * [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-190]
> * [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-193]
> * [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-199]
> The Thrift jar file [^libthrift.jar] built from that Thrift checkout is also
> attached, since it's needed to run the Java Thrift server.
> I have also added a new target to src/contrib/thriftfs/build.xml to build the
> Java bindings needed for org.apache.hadoop.thriftfs.HadoopThriftServer.java
> (see attachment [^build_xml.diff] and modified HadoopThriftServer.java to
> make use of the new bindings (see attachment [^HadoopThriftServer_java.diff]).
> The jar file [^lib/hadoopthriftapi.jar] is also included, although it can be
> regenerated from the stuff under 'gen-java' and the new 'compile-gen' Ant
> target.
> The whole changeset is also included as [^all.diff].
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