[MAPREDUCE-3691] webservices add support to compress response

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.1
• Component/s: mrv2
• Target Version/s: 0.23.1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Thomas Graves
• Reporter: Thomas Graves
• Created: 18/Jan/12 20:53
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 23/Jan/12 21:28

Description

The web services currently don't support header 'Accept-Encoding: gzip'

Given that the responses have a lot of duplicate data like the property names in JSON or the tag names in XML, it should
compress very well, and would save on bandwidth and download time when fetching a potentially large response, like the
ones from ws/v1/cluster/apps and ws/v1/history/mapreduce/jobs

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: MAPREDUCE-3549 write api documentation for web service apis for RM, NM, mapreduce app master, and job history server