Miljan: Please take a look at: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#client.connections
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
