Using the HBase Admin Operator

The <adapter-configurations> element of a project's sbconf file, despite its name, is used to specify configuration value groups for either operators or adapters.

The HBase configuration section of the sbconf file starts with an <adapter-configurations> element that contains one <adapter-configuration name="hbase"> element. This element, in turn, contains one or more <setting> elements.

Each <section name="hbase"> element must contain one element in the form <setting name="id" val="HBaseConfigName"/>, where HBaseConfigName is the name you assign to a group of settings that uniquely define an individual HBase database connection. All other <setting> elements are optional.

The example configuration below shows a basic configuration to connect to an HBase server. You can have as many configurations as your application requires, but each configuration must have a unique id.

  <adapter-configurations>
    <adapter-configuration name="hbase">
      <section name="hbase">
        <setting name="id" val="HBase Sample"/>
        <setting name="connectAtStartup" val="true" />

        <!-- All values below are passed directly to the 
             HBaseConfiguration class unmodified --/>
        <setting name="hbase.master" val="127.0.0.1:60000" />
        <setting name="hbase.zookeeper.quorum" val="127.0.0.1" />
        <setting name="hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort" val="2181" />
        <setting name="hbase.client.retries.number" val="5" />
        <setting name="zookeeper.session.timeout" val="5000" />
        <setting name="zookeeper.recovery.retry" val="5" />
      </section>
    </adapter-configuration>
  </adapter-configurations>

Name: Use this required field to specify or change the name of this instance of this component, which must be unique in the current EventFlow module. The name must contain only alphabetic characters, numbers, and underscores, and no hyphens or other special characters. The first character must be alphabetic or an underscore.

Operator: A read-only field that shows the formal name of the operator.

Class: Shows the fully qualified class name that implements the functionality of this operator. If you need to reference this class name elsewhere in your application, you can right-click this field and select Copy from the context menu to place the full class name in the system clipboard.

Start with application: If this field is set to Yes (default) or to a module parameter that evaluates to true, this instance of this operator starts as part of the JVM engine that runs this EventFlow module. If this field is set to No or to a module parameter that evaluates to false, the operator instance is loaded with the engine, but does not start until you send an sbadmin resume command, or until you start the component with StreamBase Manager.

Enable Error Output Port: Select this check box to add an Error Port to this component. In the EventFlow canvas, the Error Port shows as a red output port, always the last port for the component. See Using Error Ports to learn about Error Ports.

Description: Optionally enter text to briefly describe the component's purpose and function. In the EventFlow canvas, you can see the description by pressing Ctrl while the component's tooltip is displayed.

Use the Concurrency tab to specify parallel regions for this instance of this component, or multiplicity options, or both. The Concurrency tab settings are described in Concurrency Options, and dispatch styles are described in Dispatch Styles.