On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps it's time to consider consolidating these interfaces on a single > port, where they differ, and more generally re-embed REST into the processes, > like the recent Thrift server embedding in the RS? This would be a new > alternative to the current REST gateway that would function more like HDFS > httpfs: a client can contact any RS with a RESTful operation on a table, and > it will be redirected via the HTTP standard mechanism to the RS actually > hosting the target region. And beside such a client API, these admin > functions like 4368 and the JMX export over HTTP we inherit from Hadoop core. >
An integrated REST server could answer questions about the regionserver it was on. It could return list of regions and metrics for the server. +1. Would the REST server above that answer queries on the regionserver be the same as the REST server that we currently have which fields queries against hbase tables? They seem to be different things? St.Ack
