Sample HBase App

Sample Java application that communicates with HBase via the HBase API.

Note: the IPC ports of ZooKeeper must be accessible

Maven instructions

1. Compile on your workstation

mvn package
 
ls -lh target/*.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 david staff 8.4K Oct  4 23:29 target/hbase-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 david staff  31M Oct  4 23:29 target/hbase-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-all.jar

2. Start a Docker container that runs your job

docker run --rm -ti \
	-v $HOME/workspace/ets/sys870/sample-hbase-app/target:/opt/target \
	hbase java -jar /opt/target/hbase-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-all.jar

Gradle instructions

0. Generate the project for import into your IDE

• For Eclipse: gradle eclipse
• For IDEA: gradle idea

1. Compile on your workstation

gradle package
 
ls -lh build/libs/*.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 37426474  5 oct 23:56 hbase-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-all.jar

2. Start a Docker container

docker run --rm -ti \
	-v $HOME/workspace/ets/sys870/sample-hbase-app/build/libs:/opt/target \
	hbase java -jar /opt/target/hbase-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-all.jar

Improvements

FIXME: Normally, we should be able to run the non-fat jar as follows:

`java -cp .:$(hbase classpath) -jar hbase-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar`

but it complains about not being able to find the Hadoop Configuration class.

TODO: The HBase ZooKeeper IP is hardcoded in src/main/resources. It would be great to find an elegant way to override this between local and dev HBase cluster.

TODO: Find a way to connect to Docker container from IDE. Currently, if I need hardcode the "hbase-master" IP address in /etc/hosts. It allows connecting to ZooKeeper, but it fails when connecting to HBase RegionServer. This seems to be because the RegionServer port is always changing when starting the HBase master, so it is impossible to NAT this port from the container through the Docker-Machine / Boot2Docker or through a remote server.

   The port may be randomly assigned since HBase starts in non-distributed
   mode.