[ACCUMULO-482] Add a thrift proxy server

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Chris McCubbin
• Reporter: Sapan Shah
• Created: 22/Mar/12 05:40
• Updated: 21/Apr/14 20:48
• Resolved: 26/Feb/13 20:30

Description

Add a thrift proxy server to make integration with other languages besides Java a bit easier. This should work like http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/ThriftApi.

Issue Links

• is related to: ACCUMULO-1424 proxy TFramedTransport max size too small (should be configurable)
• supercedes: ACCUMULO-290 Look into Virgil integration

Sub-Tasks

• commit the proxy for 1.5: Resolved
• Make proxy build with Hadoop 2.0: Resolved
• Proxy can not get active scans or compactions for a tablet server: Resolved
• Re-use generate-thrift.sh script for proxy: Resolved
• ProxyServer does not handle exceptions properly: Resolved
• proxy leaks BatchWriters and BatchScanners: Resolved
• Make Thrift Transport and Protocol configurable: Resolved
• Ruby example for proxy is busted: Resolved
• Lift gen-{cpp,java,py,rb} from proxy's build.dir: Resolved
• Shorten prefix in proxy properties file: Resolved
• closeScanner in Accumulo proxy does not work: Resolved
• calling update() on proxy with unknown scanner derails thrift session: Resolved
• Fix documentation for proxy: Resolved