I also have an example that reads the ideal state from a JSON file https://github.com/mingfang/apache-helix/blob/master/helix-core/src/main/java/org/apache/helix/examples/ManualPlacementTest.java
Btw, can we please move the examples out of the core module? Sent from my iPad On Apr 16, 2013, at 4:21 PM, "kishore gopalakrishna (JIRA)" <[email protected]> wrote: > kishore gopalakrishna created HELIX-84: > ------------------------------------------ > > Summary: Add example/documentation/recipe on how to generate > idealstate programmatically > Key: HELIX-84 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HELIX-84 > Project: Apache Helix > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: kishore gopalakrishna > > > Currently the examples in Helix give the impression that idealstate of a > resource can only be set using helix admin rebalance api. This is not true, > Helix just provides few implementation of generating idealstate given a set > of nodes and partitions. One is free to provide his own implementation. > > We need to provide examples and recipes for this. > > Here is a sample code > > http://pastebin.com/e2LXtq46 > > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
