The action-core is an HDFS endpoint. Unlike the browser shipped with the Hadoop namenode, it integrates a de-serialization mechanism to read files content.

mvn -Daction.hadoop.namenode.url=hdfs://namenode.mycompany.com:9000 jetty:run

You can now browse HDFS:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/metrics.action/action

• path: path to open in HDFS

• range: when opening a file, bucket of lines to display (e.g. range=1-50 for the first 51 lines)

• raw: whether to display the nice, HTML version (raw=true) or plain text (raw=false)

• recursive: whether to craw a directory recursively. If you want to download all content under /user/pierre:

  curl 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/metrics.action/action?path=/user/pierre&recursive=true&raw=true'
  

You can specify your custom serialization classes (which implement org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.Serialization<T>) on the command line (make sure to escape the comma):

-Daction.hadoop.io.serializations=com.mycompany.FuuBarSerialization\,org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization

The action-core implements two different row renderers, one for ThriftEnvelope (see github.com/pierre/serialization) and one for org.apache.hadoop.io.Text. This means that if you use the collector (see github.com/pierre/collector) or plain text files, the action-core should work out of the box. Otherwise, you need to implement your renderer (see com.ning.metrics.action.hdfs.data.parser.RowSerializer) and specify it on the command line, e.g.:

-Daction.hadoop.io.row.serializations=com.mycompany.FuuBarRowSerializer\,com.ning.metrics.action.hdfs.data.parser.WritableRowSerializer

When clicking on a row, an exploded content of the row is show as JSON. By default, each column is labeled as “Field_…”. This can be overridden by implementing the Registrar interface.

action-core supports out of the box Goodwill (see github.com/pierre/goodwill) which is an HTTP based type registrar.

mvn package

will build a war.

See COPYING file.