[MAPREDUCE-975] Add an API in job client to get the history file url for a given job id

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: client, jobtracker
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

Adds an API Cluster#getJobHistoryUrl(JobID jobId) to get the history url for a given job id. The API does not check for the validity of job id or existence of the history file. It just constructs the url based on history folder, job id and the current user.

• Assignee: Sharad Agarwal
• Reporter: Sharad Agarwal
• Created: 14/Sep/09 09:47
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 21:17
• Resolved: 18/Sep/09 11:37

Description

MAPREDUCE-817 added an API to get history url in RunningJob. Similar API should be added in job client to get the history file given a job id. Something like:
String getHistoryFile(JobId jobid);

Issue Links

• is blocked by: MAPREDUCE-157 Job History log file format is not friendly for external tools.
• is blocked by: MAPREDUCE-777 A method for finding and tracking jobs from the new API