WebHCat and WebHDFS tutorial

WebHCat

# this will execute a hive query and save result to hdfs file in your home directory called output

curl -s -d execute="select+*+from+sample_08;" \
-d statusdir="output" \
'http://localhost:50111/templeton/v1/hive?user.name=root'

# if you ls on the directory, it will have two files, stderr and stdout

hdfs dfs -ls output

# if the job succeeded, you can cat the stdout file and view the results

hdfs dfs -cat output/stdout

WebHDFS

# list the output directory, notice the webhdfs port

curl -i "http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/root/output/?op=LISTSTATUS"

# read the output file

curl -i -L "http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/root/output/stdout?op=OPEN"

# rename a file, if you get dr. who error, add &user.name=root or any other user in the context

curl -i -X PUT "sandbox.hortonworks.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/root/output/stdout?op=RENAME&user.name=root&destination=/user/root/newname"

# read the output of the new file

curl -i -L "http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/root/newname?op=OPEN"