Hi Peter, Livy 0.6 has a new feature to give each session a name: https://github.com/apache/incubator-livy/pull/48
Would this feature be useful in your usecase? Thanks, Meisam On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 8:51 AM Peter Wicks (pwicks) <pwi...@micron.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > > > I have a custom service that connects to Livy, v0.4 soon to be v0.5 once > we go to HDP3. If sessions already exist it logs the session ID’s and > starts using them, if sessions don’t exist it creates new ones. The problem > is the account used to launch the Livy sessions is not unique to this > service, nor is the kind of session. So sometimes it grabs other people’s > sessions and absconds off with them. Also, there are multiple instances of > the service, running under the same account, and they are not supposed to > use each other’s sessions… that’s not working out so well. > > > > The service names the sessions, but I can’t find any way to retrieve > detailed session data so that I can update the service to check if the Livy > Session belongs to the service or not. > > > > I found some older comments 2016/2017 about retrieving Livy sessions by > name. I don’t really need that, I just want to be able to read the name > through the regular sessions REST call. > > > > Any REST calls I missed, or undocumented calls… that can help? > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > > Ref: > https://github.com/meisam/livy/wiki/Design-doc-for-Livy-41:-Accessing-sessions-by-name, > https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/LIVY-41 > > > > >
