You can use this bridge to query HBase for either the current record or the last few versions of a record.

To see the methods

http://localhost:8080/hbasebridge/rpc?debug=true

Which returns a list of usable RPC methods:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {"method": [
    {
      "class": "com.werxltd.hbasebridge.HBaseInfo",
      "name": "listtables",
      "params": [],
      "returns": "org.json.JSONObject",
      "static": false
    },
    {
      "class": "com.werxltd.hbasebridge.HadoopInfo",
      "name": "clusterstatus",
      "params": [],
      "returns": "org.json.JSONObject",
      "static": false
    },
    {
      "class": "com.werxltd.hbasebridge.HadoopInfo",
      "name": "jobstatus",
      "params": [],
      "returns": "org.json.JSONObject",
      "static": false
    },
    {
      "class": "com.werxltd.jsonrpc.RPC",
      "name": "listrpcmethods",
      "params": [],
      "returns": "org.json.JSONObject",
      "static": false
    },
    {
      "class": "com.werxltd.hbasebridge.TableLookup",
      "name": "lookup",
      "params": ["org.json.JSONObject"],
      "returns": "org.json.JSONObject",
      "static": false
    }
  ]}
}

To list tables:

http://localhost:8080/hbasebridge/rpc?debug=true&method=listtables

Which returns:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {"tables": [
    "mytable"
  ]}
}

To get the current status of the cluster:

http://localhost:8080/hbasebridge/rpc?debug=true&method=clusterstatus

Which returns:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "activetrackernames": [
      "trackernode1:localhost/127.0.0.1:33455",
      "trackernode2:localhost/127.0.0.1:54616",
    ],
    "blacklistedtrackernames": [],
    "blacklistedtrackers": 0,
    "jobqueues": {"queues": [{
      "jobs": [
        {
          "cleanuptasks": [{"state": ""}],
          "complete": false,
          "filename": "hdfs://hadoophdfsnode:9000/data/hadoop/mapred/system/job_201003191557_0442/job.xml",
          "jobpriority": "normal",
          "mapprogress": 1,
          "name": "My mapreduce job",
          "reduceprogress": 0.9819000363349915,
          "runstate": "running",
          "schedulinginfo": "NA",
          "setupprogress": 1,
          "starttime": 1269024863960,
          "username": "hadoop-admin"
        }
      ],
      "name": "default"
    }]},
    "jobtrackerstate": "running",
    "maptasks": 1,
    "maxmaptasks": 116,
    "maxmemory": 2079719424,
    "maxreducetasks": 58,
    "reducetasks": 16,
    "tasktrackers": 34,
    "ttyexpiryinterval": 600000,
    "usedmemory": 969170944
  }
}

Key/Value Query:

http://localhost:8080/hbase_tape/rpc?debug=true&data={"method":"lookup","params":{"table":"tablename","keys":["mykey"]}}

Results:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {"rows": [{"mykey": {
    "family:col": "myvalue"
  }}]}
}

Key/Value query with versions:

http://localhost:8080/hbase_tape/rpc?debug=true&data={"method":"lookup","params":{"table":"tablename","keys":["mykey"],versions:2}}

Results:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {"rows": [{"mykey": {
    "family:col": [{
      "value": "myval",
      "version": 123456789
    }],
    "family:col": [{
      "value": "myoldval",
      "version": 123456788
    }]
  }}]}
}

The code should also provide a handy reference for anyone who wants to learn how to query HBase and scrape Result objects for values without knowing family or column names in advance.

For more information (and for future updates), visit the new project page here.

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