[HBASE-2400] new connector for Avro RPC access to HBase cluster

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.90.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jeff Hammerbacher
• Reporter: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Created: 01/Apr/10 22:34
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 12:43
• Resolved: 13/Jun/10 06:55

Description

Build a new connector contrib architecturally equivalent to the Thrift connector, but using Avro serialization and associated transport and RPC server work. Support AAA (audit, authentication, authorization).

Issue Links

• is related to: AVRO-405 Netty-based Java RPC server
• is related to: HBASE-2387 FUSE module for mounting exported tablespaces
• relates to: HBASE-2719 Fix test failures for Avro server on Hudson
• relates to: AVRO-544 Allow the HttpServer to serve forever without a call to Thread.sleep()
• relates to: AVRO-341 specify avro transport in spec
• relates to: HBASE-2685 Add activeMaster field to AClusterStatus record in Avro interface
• relates to: HBASE-2687 Implement filters for get and scan operations in Avro interface
• relates to: HBASE-2688 Implement user attribute get and set for Tables and Families in Avro interface
• relates to: HBASE-2689 Implement common gateway service daemon for Avro and Thrift servers
• relates to: HBASE-2690 Add support for setCacheBlocks() (regionserver level caching) and setCaching() (connector level caching) to scan operation in Avro interface
• relates to: HBASE-2705 Enrich Scan API in Python Avro gateway service to include batching start/end row, and related modifiers

Sub-Tasks

• Update Avro gateway to use Avro 1.4.1 and the new server.join() method: Closed
• Generate Avro Java files at compile time: Closed