[SLIDER-719] Create slider REST client library

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Slider 0.70
• Fix Version/s: Slider 0.70
• Component/s: client
• Sprint: Slider December #1
• Assignee: Steve Loughran
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 10/Dec/14 15:11
• Updated: 21/Jan/15 17:57
• Resolved: 21/Jan/15 17:55

Description

As development of the REST API proceeds, we need a RESTy slider client library for testing and ultimately switching to in production.

Requirements

1. good for testing
2. good for production
3. integration with Hadoop security
4. proxy support
5. knox support
6. ease of configuration
7. includes diagnostics
8. collects basic performance metrics (useful to identify perf problems over long-haul links)