I would take a look at the Apache Ambari API reference.
I think that this link might be of use: https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari...
For a list of all configurations to the API you could make a call similar to the following
GET /api/v1/clusters/cluster/configurations
Then if you wanted to get all of the configuration versions for Hive you could make the call to
GET /api/v1/clusters/cluster/configurations?type=hive-site
And from that list if you picked one of the versions you would make a call like:
/api/v1/clusters/Sandbox/configurations?type=hive-site&tag=version1447446748723
The response would look something like:
{
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/clusters/Sandbox/configurations?type=hive-site&tag=version1447446748723",
"items" : [
{
"href" : "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/clusters/Sandbox/configurations?type=hive-site&tag=version1447446748723",
"tag" : "version1447446748723",
"type" : "hive-site",
"version" : 4,
"Config" : {
"cluster_name" : "Sandbox",
"stack_id" : "HDP-2.3"
},
"properties" : {
"ambari.hive.db.schema.name" : "hive",
"atlas.cluster.name" : "Sandbox",
"atlas.hook.hive.synchronous" : "true",
"atlas.rest.address" : "http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:21000",
"datanucleus.autoCreateSchema" : "false",
"datanucleus.cache.level2.type" : "none",
"hive.auto.convert.join" : "true",
"hive.auto.convert.join.noconditionaltask" : "true",
"hive.auto.convert.join.noconditionaltask.size" : "357913941",
"hive.auto.convert.sortmerge.join" : "true",
"hive.auto.convert.sortmerge.join.to.mapjoin" : "false",
"hive.cbo.enable" : "true",
"hive.cli.print.header" : "false",
"hive.cluster.delegation.token.store.class" : "org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.ZooKeeperTokenStore",
"hive.cluster.delegation.token.store.zookeeper.connectString" : "sandbox.hortonworks.com:2181",
"hive.cluster.delegation.token.store.zookeeper.znode" : "/hive/cluster/delegation",
"hive.compactor.abortedtxn.threshold" : "1000",
"hive.compactor.check.interval" : "300s",
"hive.compactor.delta.num.threshold" : "10",
"hive.compactor.delta.pct.threshold" : "0.1f",
"hive.security.authorization.enabled" : "true",
"hive.security.authorization.manager" : "org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.plugin.sqlstd.SQLStdConfOnlyAuthorizerFactory",
"hive.security.metastore.authenticator.manager" : "org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.HadoopDefaultMetastoreAuthenticator",
"hive.security.metastore.authorization.auth.reads" : "true",
"hive.security.metastore.authorization.manager" : "org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider",
"hive.server2.allow.user.substitution" : "true",
"hive.server2.authentication" : "NONE",
"hive.server2.authentication.spnego.keytab" : "HTTP/_HOST@EXAMPLE.COM",
"hive.server2.authentication.spnego.principal" : "/etc/security/keytabs/spnego.service.keytab",
"hive.server2.enable.doAs" : "false",
"hive.server2.logging.operation.enabled" : "true",
"hive.server2.logging.operation.log.location" : "${system:java.io.tmpdir}/${system:user.name}/operation_logs",
"hive.server2.support.dynamic.service.discovery" : "true",
"hive.server2.table.type.mapping" : "CLASSIC",
"hive.server2.tez.default.queues" : "default",
"hive.server2.tez.initialize.default.sessions" : "false",
"hive.server2.tez.sessions.per.default.queue" : "1",
"hive.server2.thrift.http.path" : "cliservice",
"hive.server2.thrift.http.port" : "10001",
"hive.server2.thrift.max.worker.threads" : "500",
"hive.server2.thrift.port" : "10000",
"hive.server2.thrift.sasl.qop" : "auth",
"hive.server2.transport.mode" : "binary",
"hive.server2.use.SSL" : "false",
"hive.server2.zookeeper.namespace" : "hiveserver2",
"hive.smbjoin.cache.rows" : "10000",
"hive.stats.autogather" : "true",
"hive.stats.dbclass" : "fs",From this you can retrieve the correct property and it's value.
