[HIVE-6226] It should be possible to get hadoop, hive, and pig version being used by WebHCat

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: WebHCat
• Release Note: Added new call in webhcat to allow version/hadoop and version/hive which will return the versions of hadoop and hive being run.
• Assignee: Alan Gates
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 17/Jan/14 23:16
• Updated: 03/Aug/14 19:26
• Resolved: 05/Feb/14 18:29

Description

Calling /version on WebHCat tells the caller the protocol verison, but there is no way to determine the versions of software being run by the applications that WebHCat spawns.

I propose to add an end-point: /version/{module} where module could be pig, hive, or hadoop. The response will then be:

{
  "module" : _module_name_,
  "version" : _version_string_
}