[YARN-1953] [Umbrella] Public APIs needed for applications

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
• Created: 16/Apr/14 22:00
• Updated: 29/Apr/14 01:52

Description

There are several YARN-only or private APIs that applications started to depend upon. These calls being private are open to changes and so have caused frameworks to fail recently. This is an umbrella to track all of these and make a decision as to whether they should be

• made public or
• replaced with better written public libraries.

Sub-Tasks

• Expose utility methods in Apps.java publically: Open
• need Public interface for WebAppUtils.getProxyHostAndPort: Open
• Have a public Test-only API for creating important records that ecosystem projects can depend on: Open