+1 for Hyunsik's suggestion. I totally agree with you. Warm regards, Jihoon 2015년 3월 12일 (목) 오후 5:35, Hyunsik Choi <[email protected]>님이 작성:
> Here is my suggestion. > > I prefer REST API. I think that it would be better than other due to > the following reasons: > > * No dependency - most of script languages do not need any dependency > for this approach. Also, C and C++ just needs json library for this > approach. Please look at JSON for Modern C++ > (https://github.com/nlohmann/json). It just requires to include one > header and one source file. As a result, there is no dependency > problem. > > * Portability - most of script languages basically support REST and > JSON. They don't need client implementation. They can just use REST > and JSON features in order to access Tajo. If necessary, we can make > easily some helper libraries for other languages. > > * Secure - It is easy to provide the secure channel and > authentication method too. Basically, many HTTP API provides HTTP over > SSL. > > Jihoon Kang already started REST API work. If others start to develop > clients for other languages like C/C++ client over REST API after his > work, it would be best for us. > > Best regards, > Hyunsik > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Hyunsik Choi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Recently, there are three trials to add new remote client APIs. > > > > * C/C++ Client over Thrift - https://issues.apache.org/ > jira/browse/TAJO-1264 > > * Add REST Client API - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAJO-1331 > > * Tajo Python Native Client - https://issues.apache.org/ > jira/browse/TAJO-1367 > > > > In some aspect, I'm very happy to discuss such an issue. I haven't > > expected that we are discuss and vote for duplicated efforts. > > > > BTW, it would be great if we do not spend our resource on duplicated > works. > > > > In order to rearrange this duplicated works, we need some discussion > > about their pros and cons. I hope that we consent our direction after > > this discussion. Otherwise, we can call for a vote for the approach. > > > > Best regards, > > Hyunsik >
