Hi Kyle, It sounds like you wanna use a normal thrift synchronous service that submits the job and returns its id back. A async call wouldn't return anything until it's done.
Cheers, Henrique On 5 March 2013 00:46, Kyle B <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm incorporating Thrift for remote Hive calls from PHP, using the Thrift > PHP library. I was wondering if there is a way to start an async hive job, > and get back the Hadoop job id? > > My goal is to start a long running job, where I will send the results to a > file in HDFS. I just need a way to kick it off and get back the job id, > which I will track using the Hadoop jobtracker. > > Is this possible? And if not, has anyone come up with a solution to this > problem before? > > Thanks, > > -Kyle >
