[MAPREDUCE-777] A method for finding and tracking jobs from the new API

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: client
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Release Note: Enhance the Context Objects api to add features to find and track jobs.
• Assignee: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 21/Jul/09 05:59
• Updated: 18/Oct/11 07:18
• Resolved: 18/Sep/09 07:05

Description

We need to create a replacement interface for the JobClient API in the new interface. In particular, the user needs to be able to query and track jobs that were launched by other processes.

Issue Links

• blocks: MAPREDUCE-864 Enhance JobClient API implementations to look at history files to get information about jobs that are not in memory
• blocks: MAPREDUCE-975 Add an API in job client to get the history file url for a given job id