Hi Miljan, Why do you want to keep the HConnection if you spend days not using it? Why not just get a connection when you need it? Any reason?
JM 2014/1/16 Miljan Markovic <[email protected]> > Hi everybody, > > I have an application that runs constantly as a service and ocassionaly > talks to hbase. It can have very long periods (day or two) when it doesn't > talk to hbase at all. > > What would be the best way to make sure that my application components have > active and available HConnection instance to use in this case? Resource > consumption is not a problem if HConnection iself doesn't accumulate > resources by just sitting idle... My main concern is what happens if > connection to hbase gets lost, or server closes the connection as idle. > > Do I have to manually reinitialize the connection in this case, or does > HConnection itself have a reconnect mechanism? Also, how do I detect those > conditions in runtime so I can react to them if I need to? > > Thanks >
