Run: ./bin/hbase rest
It outputs options. For example: ./bin/hbase rest start ... will start it in current console (on port 60050 by default). To start it as background process writing a pid, etc., do ./bin/hbase-daemon.sh start rest. That said, REST story is interesting in 0.20.0 in that the 0.19.0 REST was redone by Brian Beggs. Then Andrew Purtell did a new fancy REST server as a contrib called stargate (with help from Brian Beggs). Documentation on the latter is in javadoc. There are still a few pieces missing but they are arriving fast. St.Ack On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Eric Tschetter <eched...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been exploring HBase recently and had originally set up a 0.19 > cluster for prototyping, heard that 0.20 has all sorts of performance > enhancements and setup another 0.20 cluster on a separate dev > environment. Everything appears to be working fine, excepting that > the REST API appears to be non-existent. > > I'm not sure if I have to do anything special to make it work, but > from what I can tell there should be a servlet under > > http://hbase-master:port/api/ > > However, whenever I access that it just loads up a directory listing of > > META-INF/ > WEB-INF/ > > If I try to access anything under /api/, it returns 404s. > > The javadoc for org.apache.hadoop.hbase.rest doesn't appear to be > different from 0.19 (it does list the default port as 60050 instead of > 60010), so I'm not sure if I am missing some new configuration or if > there is something else wrong. > > None of the updates since the revision I built from seem to touch > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.rest, though some of them deal with stargate. > Is the old API gone? > > --Eric >
