To simplify configuration, SHDP provides a dedicated namespace for Yarn components. However, one can opt to configure the beans directly through the usual <bean> definition. For more information about XML Schema-based configuration in Spring, see this appendix in the Spring Framework reference documentation.

To use the SHDP namespace, one just needs to import it inside the configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:yarn="http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn"
  xmlns:yarn-int="http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/integration"
  xmlns:yarn-batch="http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/batch"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/spring-yarn.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/integration
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/integration/spring-yarn-integration.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/batch
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/batch/spring-yarn-batch.xsd">

  <bean id ... >

  <yarn:configuration ...>
</beans>

Once declared, the namespace elements can be declared simply by appending the aforementioned prefix. Note that is possible to change the default namespace, for example from <beans> to <yarn>. This is useful for configuration composed mainly of Hadoop components as it avoids declaring the prefix. To achieve this, simply swap the namespace prefix declaration above:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/spring-yarn.xsd">
	    
    <beans:bean id ... >
	
    <configuration ...>
	
</beans:beans>

It is also possible to work without XML configuration and rely on Annotation based configuration model. XML and JavaConfig for Spring YARN are not full replacement for each others but we try to mimic the behaviour as much as we can.

We basically rely on two concepts when working with JavaConfig. Firstly an annotation @EnableYarn is used to activate different parts of a Spring Configuration depending on enable attribute. We can enable configuration for CONTAINER, APPMASTER or CLIENT. Secondly when configuration is enabled one can use SpringYarnConfigurerAdapter whose callback methods can be used to do further configuration for components familiar from XML.

@Configuration
@EnableYarn(enable=Enable.CONTAINER)
public class ContainerConfiguration extends SpringYarnConfigurerAdapter {

  @Override
  public void configure(YarnContainerConfigurer container) throws Exception {
    container
      .containerClass(MultiContextContainer.class);
  }

}

In above example we enabled configuration for CONTAINER and used SpringYarnConfigurerAdapter and its configure callback method for YarnContainerConfigurer. In this method we instructed container class to be a MultiContextContainer.

@Configuration
@EnableYarn(enable=Enable.APPMASTER)
public class AppmasterConfiguration extends SpringYarnConfigurerAdapter {

  @Override
  public void configure(YarnAppmasterConfigurer master) throws Exception {
    master
      .withContainerRunner();
  }

}

In above example we enabled configuration for APPMASTER and because of this a callback method for YarnAppmasterConfigurer is called automatically.

@Configuration
@EnableYarn(enable=Enable.CLIENT)
@PropertySource("classpath:hadoop.properties")
public class ClientConfiguration extends SpringYarnConfigurerAdapter {

  @Autowired
  private Environment env;

  @Override
  public void configure(YarnConfigConfigurer config) throws Exception {
    config
      .fileSystemUri(env.getProperty("hd.fs"))
      .resourceManagerAddress(env.getProperty("hd.rm"));
  }

  @Override
  public void configure(YarnClientConfigurer client) throws Exception {
    Properties arguments = new Properties();
    arguments.put("container-count", "4");
    client
      .appName("multi-context-jc")
      .withMasterRunner()
        .contextClass(AppmasterConfiguration.class)
        .arguments(arguments);
}

In above example we enabled configuration for CLIENT. Here one will get yet another callback for YarnClientConfigurer. Additionally this shows how a Hadoop configuration can be customized using a callback for YarnConfigConfigurer.

In order to use Hadoop and Yarn, one needs to first configure it namely by creating a YarnConfiguration object. The configuration holds information about the various parameters of the Yarn system.

	Note
	Configuration for <yarn:configuration> looks very similar than <hdp:configuration>. Reason for this is a simple separation for Hadoop's YarnConfiguration and JobConf classes.

In its simplest form, the configuration definition is a one liner:

<yarn:configuration />

The declaration above defines a YarnConfiguration bean (to be precise a factory bean of type ConfigurationFactoryBean) named, by default, yarnConfiguration. The default name is used, by conventions, by the other elements that require a configuration - this leads to simple and very concise configurations as the main components can automatically wire themselves up without requiring any specific configuration.

For scenarios where the defaults need to be tweaked, one can pass in additional configuration files:

<yarn:configuration resources="classpath:/custom-site.xml, classpath:/hq-site.xml">

In this example, two additional Hadoop configuration resources are added to the configuration.

	Note
	Note that the configuration makes use of Spring's Resource abstraction to locate the file. This allows various search patterns to be used, depending on the running environment or the prefix specified(if any) by the value - in this example the classpath is used.

In addition to referencing configuration resources, one can tweak Hadoop settings directly through Java Properties. This can be quite handy when just a few options need to be changed:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:yarn="http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/spring-yarn.xsd">
        
  <yarn:configuration>
    fs.defaultFS=hdfs://localhost:9000
    hadoop.tmp.dir=/tmp/hadoop
    electric=sea
  </yarn:configuration>
</beans>

One can further customize the settings by avoiding the so called hard-coded values by externalizing them so they can be replaced at runtime, based on the existing environment without touching the configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:yarn="http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/spring-yarn.xsd">
        
  <yarn:configuration>
    fs.defaultFS=${hd.fs}
    hadoop.tmp.dir=file://${java.io.tmpdir}
    hangar=${number:18}
  </yarn:configuration>
     
  <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:hadoop.properties" />     
</beans>

Through Spring's property placeholder support, SpEL and the environment abstraction (available in Spring 3.1). one can externalize environment specific properties from the main code base easing the deployment across multiple machines. In the example above, the default file system is replaced based on the properties available in hadoop.properties while the temp dir is determined dynamically through SpEL. Both approaches offer a lot of flexbility in adapting to the running environment - in fact we use this approach extensivly in the Spring for Apache Hadoop test suite to cope with the differences between the different development boxes and the CI server.

Additionally, external Properties files can be loaded, Properties beans (typically declared through Spring's util namespace). Along with the nested properties declaration, this allows customized configurations to be easily declared:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:yarn="http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn http://www.springframework.org/schema/yarn/spring-yarn.xsd">

  <!-- merge the local properties, the props bean and the two properties files -->        
  <yarn:configuration properties-ref="props" properties-location="cfg-1.properties, cfg-2.properties">
    star=chasing
    captain=eo
  </yarn:configuration>
     
  <util:properties id="props" location="props.properties"/>     
</beans>

When merging several properties, ones defined locally win. In the example above the configuration properties are the primary source, followed by the props bean followed by the external properties file based on their defined order. While it's not typical for a configuration to refer to use so many properties, the example showcases the various options available.

	Note
	For more properties utilities, including using the System as a source or fallback, or control over the merging order, consider using Spring's PropertiesFactoryBean (which is what Spring for Apache Hadoop Yarn and util:properties use underneath).

It is possible to create configuration based on existing ones - this allows one to create dedicated configurations, slightly different from the main ones, usable for certain jobs (such as streaming - more on that below). Simply use the configuration-ref attribute to refer to the parent configuration - all its properties will be inherited and overridden as specified by the child:

<!-- default name is 'yarnConfiguration' -->
<yarn:configuration>
  fs.defaultFS=${hd.fs}
  hadoop.tmp.dir=file://${java.io.tmpdir}
</yarn:configuration>
     
<yarn:configuration id="custom" configuration-ref="yarnConfiguration">
  fs.defaultFS=${custom.hd.fs}
</yarn:configuration>     

...

Make sure though you specify a different name since otherwise, since both definitions will have the same name, the Spring container will interpret this as being the same definition (and will usually consider the last one found).

Last but not least a reminder that one can mix and match all these options to her preference. In general, consider externalizing configuration since it allows easier updates without interfering with the application configuration. When dealing with multiple, similar configuration use configuration composition as it tends to keep the definitions concise, in sync and easy to update.

When Application Master or any other Container is run in a hadoop cluster, there are usually dependencies to various application and configuration files. These files needs to be localized into a running Container by making a physical copy. Localization is a process where dependent files are copied into node's directory structure and thus can be used within the Container itself. Yarn itself tries to provide isolation in a way that multiple containers and applications would not clash.

In order to use local resources, one needs to create an implementation of ResourceLocalizer interface. In its simplest form, resource localizer can be defined as:

<yarn:localresources>
  <yarn:hdfs path="/path/in/hdfs/my.jar"/>
</yarn:localresources>

The declaration above defines a ResourceLocalizer bean (to be precise a factory bean of type LocalResourcesFactoryBean) named, by default, yarnLocalresources. The default name is used, by conventions, by the other elements that require a reference to a resource localizer. It's explained later how this reference is used when container launch context is defined.

It is also possible to define path as pattern. This makes it easier to pick up all or subset of files from a directory.

<yarn:localresources>
  <yarn:hdfs path="/path/in/hdfs/*.jar"/>
</yarn:localresources>

Behind the scenes it's not enough to simple have a reference to file in a hdfs file system. Yarn itself when localizing resources into container needs to do a consistency check for copied files. This is done by checking file size and timestamp. This information needs to passed to yarn together with a file path. Order to do this the one who defines these beans needs to ask this information from hdfs prior to sending out resouce localizer request. This kind of behaviour exists to make sure that once localization is defined, Container will fail fast if dependant files were replaced during the process.

On default the hdfs base address is coming from a Yarn configuration and ResourceLocalizer bean will use configuration named yarnLocalresources. If there is a need to use something else than the default bean, configuration parameter can be used to make a reference to other defined configurations.

<yarn:localresources configuration="yarnConfiguration">
  <yarn:hdfs path="/path/in/hdfs/my.jar"/>
</yarn:localresources>

For example, client defining a launch context for Application Master needs to access dependent hdfs entries. Effectively hdfs entry given to resource localizer needs to be accessed from a Node Manager.

Yarn resource localizer is using additional parameters to define entry type and visibility. Usage is described below:

<yarn:localresources>
  <yarn:hdfs path="/path/in/hdfs/my.jar" type="FILE" visibility="APPLICATION"/>
</yarn:localresources>

For convenience it is possible to copy files into hdfs during the localization process using a yarn:copy tag. Currently base staging directory is /syarn/staging/xx where xx is a unique identifier per application instance.

<yarn:localresources>
  <yarn:copy src="file:/local/path/to/files/*jar" staging="true"/>
  <yarn:hdfs path="/*" staging="true"/>
</yarn:localresources>

One central concept in Yarn is to use environment variables which then can be read from a container. While it's possible to read those variable at any time it is considered bad design if one chooce to do so. Spring Yarn will pass variable into application before any business methods are executed, which makes things more clearly and testing becomes much more easier.

<yarn:environment/>

The declaration above defines a Map bean (to be precise a factory bean of type EnvironmentFactoryBean) named, by default, yarnEnvironment. The default name is used, by conventions, by the other elements that require a reference to a environment variables.

For conveniance it is possible to define a classpath entry directly into an environment. Most likely one is about to run some java code with libraries so classpath needs to be defined anyway.

<yarn:environment include-local-system-env="false">
  <yarn:classpath use-yarn-app-classpath="true" delimiter=":">
    ./*
  </yarn:classpath>
</yarn:environment>

If use-yarn-app-classpath parameter is set to true(default value) a default yarn entries will be added to classpath automatically. These entries are on default resolved from a normal Hadoop Yarn Configuration using its yarn.application.classpath property or if site-yarn-app-classpath has a any content entries are resolved from there.

	Note
	Be carefull if passing environment variables between different systems. For example if running a client on Windows and passing variables to Application Master running on Linux, execution wrapper in Yarn may silently fail.

Client is always your entry point when interacting with a Yarn system whether one is about to submit a new application instance or just querying Resource Manager for running application(s) status. Currently support for client is very limited and a simple command to start Application Master can be defined. If there is just a need to query Resource Manager, command definition is not needed.

<yarn:client app-name="customAppName">
  <yarn:master-command>
    <![CDATA[
      /usr/local/java/bin/java
      org.springframework.yarn.am.CommandLineAppmasterRunner
      appmaster-context.xml
      yarnAppmaster
      container-count=2
      1><LOG_DIR>/AppMaster.stdout
      2><LOG_DIR>/AppMaster.stderr
    ]]>
  </yarn:master-command>
</yarn:client>

The declaration above defines a YarnClient bean (to be precise a factory bean of type YarnClientFactoryBean) named, by default, yarnClient. It also defines a command launching an Application Master using <master-command> entry which is also a way to define the raw commands. If this yarnClient instance is used to submit an application, its name would come from a app-name attribute.

<yarn:client app-name="customAppName">
  <yarn:master-runner/>
</yarn:client>

For a convinience entry <master-runner> can be used to define same command entries.

<yarn:client app-name="customAppName">
  <util:properties id="customArguments">
    container-count=2
  </util:properties>
  <yarn:master-runner
    command="java"
    context-file="appmaster-context.xml"
    bean-name="yarnAppmaster"
    arguments="customArguments"
    stdout="<LOG_DIR>/AppMaster.stdout"
    stderr="<LOG_DIR>/AppMaster.stderr" />
</yarn:client>

All previous three examples are effectively identical from Spring Yarn point of view.

	Note
	The <LOG_DIR> refers to Hadoop's dedicated log directory for the running container.

<yarn:client app-name="customAppName"
  configuration="customConfiguration"
  resource-localizer="customResources"
  environment="customEnv"
  priority="1"
  virtualcores="2"
  memory="11"
  queue="customqueue">
  <yarn:master-runner/>
</yarn:client>

If there is a need to change some of the parameters for the Application Master submission, memory and virtualcores defines the container settings. For submission, queue and priority defines how submission is actually done.

Application master is responsible for container allocation, launching and monitoring.

<yarn:master>
  <yarn:container-allocator virtualcores="1" memory="64" priority="0"/>    
  <yarn:container-launcher username="whoami"/>    
  <yarn:container-command>
    <![CDATA[
      /usr/local/java/bin/java
      org.springframework.yarn.container.CommandLineContainerRunner
      container-context.xml
      1><LOG_DIR>/Container.stdout
      2><LOG_DIR>/Container.stderr
    ]]>
  </yarn:container-command>
</yarn:master>

The declaration above defines a YarnAppmaster bean (to be precise a bean of type StaticAppmaster) named, by default, yarnAppmaster. It also defines a command launching a Container(s) using <container-command> entry, parameters for allocation using <container-allocator> entry and finally a launcher parameter using <container-launcher> entry.

Currently there is a simple implementation of StaticAppmaster which is able to allocate and launch a number of containers. These containers are monitored by querying resource manager for container execution completion.

<yarn:master>
  <yarn:container-runner/>
</yarn:master>

For a convinience entry <container-runner> can be used to define same command entries.

<yarn:master>
  <util:properties id="customArguments">
    some-argument=myvalue
  </util:properties>
  <yarn:container-runner
    command="java"
    context-file="container-context.xml"
    bean-name="yarnContainer"
    arguments="customArguments"
    stdout="<LOG_DIR>/Container.stdout"
    stderr="<LOG_DIR>/Container.stderr" />
</yarn:master>

There is very little what Spring Yarn needs to know about the Container in terms of its configuration. There is a simple contract between org.springframework.yarn.container.CommandLineContainerRunner and a bean it's trying to run on default. Default bean name is yarnContainer.

There is a simple interface org.springframework.yarn.container.YarnContainer which container needs to implement.

public interface YarnContainer {
  void run();
  void setEnvironment(Map<String, String> environment);
  void setParameters(Properties parameters);
}

There are few different ways how Container can be defined in Spring xml configuration. Natively without using namespaces bean can be defined with a correct name:

<bean id="yarnContainer" class="org.springframework.yarn.container.TestContainer">	

Spring Yarn namespace will make it even more simpler. Below example just defines class which implements needed interface.

<yarn:container container-class="org.springframework.yarn.container.TestContainer"/>

It's possible to make a reference to existing bean. This is usefull if bean cannot be instantiated with default constructor.

<bean id="testContainer" class="org.springframework.yarn.container.TestContainer"/>
<yarn:container container-ref="testContainer"/>

It's also possible to inline the bean definition.

<yarn:container>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.container.TestContainer"/>
</yarn:container>

It is fairly easy to create an application which launches a few containers and then leave those to do their tasks. This is pretty much what Distributed Shell example application in Yarn is doing. In that example a container is configured to run a simple shell command and Application Master only tracks when containers have finished. If only need from a framework is to be able to fire and forget then that's all you need, but most likely a real-world Yarn application will need some sort of collaboration with Application Master. This communication is initiated either from Application Client or Application Container.

Yarn framework itself doesn't define any kind of general communication API for Application Master. There are APIs for communicating with Container Manager and Resource Manager which are used on within a layer not necessarily exposed to a user. Spring Yarn defines a general framework to talk to Application Master through an abstraction and currently a JSON based rpc system exists.

This chapter concentrates on developer concepts to create a custom services for Application Master, configuration options for built-in services can be found from sections below - Appmaster Service and Appmaster Service Client.

public interface AppmasterService {
  int getPort();
  boolean hasPort();
  String getHost();
}

<bean id="yarnAmservice" class="AppmasterServiceImpl" />
<bean id="yarnClientAmservice" class="AppmasterClientServiceImpl" />

public interface AppmasterServiceClient {
}

<yarn-int:amservice
  service-impl="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.TestService"
  default-port="1234"/>
<yarn-int:amservice-client
  service-impl="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.DefaultMindAppmasterServiceClient"
  host="localhost"
  port="1234"/>

@Autowired
AppmasterServiceClient appmasterServiceClient;

@Test
public void testServiceInterfaces() throws Exception {
  SimpleTestRequest request = new SimpleTestRequest();
  SimpleTestResponse response =
  (SimpleTestResponse) ((MindAppmasterServiceClient)appmasterServiceClient).
    doMindRequest(request);
  assertThat(response.stringField, is("echo:stringFieldValue"));
}

<bean id="mapper" 
  class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.support.Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean" />	

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindObjectToHolderConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindHolderToObjectConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
    <constructor-arg value="org.springframework.yarn.batch.repository.bindings"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

This section of this document is about configuration, more about general concepts for see a Section 11.9, “Application Master Services”.

Currently Spring Yarn have support for services using Spring Integration tcp channels as a transport.

<bean id="mapper" 
  class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.support.Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean" />

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindObjectToHolderConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindHolderToObjectConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
    <constructor-arg value="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

<yarn-int:amservice
  service-impl="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.TestService"/>

If there is a need to manually configure the server side dispatch channel, a little bit more configuration is needed.

<bean id="serializer"
  class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.MindRpcSerializer" />
<bean id="deserializer"
  class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.MindRpcSerializer" />
<bean id="socketSupport"
  class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.support.DefaultPortExposingTcpSocketSupport" />

<ip:tcp-connection-factory id="serverConnectionFactory"
  type="server"
  port="0"
  socket-support="socketSupport"
  serializer="serializer"
  deserializer="deserializer"/>

<ip:tcp-inbound-gateway id="inboundGateway"
  connection-factory="serverConnectionFactory"
  request-channel="serverChannel" />

<int:channel id="serverChannel" />

<yarn-int:amservice
  service-impl="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.TestService"
  channel="serverChannel"
  socket-support="socketSupport"/>

This section of this document is about configuration, more about general concepts for see a Section 11.9, “Application Master Services”.

Currently Spring Yarn have support for services using Spring Integration tcp channels as a transport.

<bean id="mapper" 
  class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.support.Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean" />

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindObjectToHolderConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindHolderToObjectConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
    <constructor-arg value="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

<yarn-int:amservice-client
  service-impl="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.DefaultMindAppmasterServiceClient"
  host="${SHDP_AMSERVICE_HOST}"
  port="${SHDP_AMSERVICE_PORT}"/>

If there is a need to manually configure the server side dispatch channel, a little bit more configuration is needed.

<bean id="serializer"
  class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.MindRpcSerializer" />
<bean id="deserializer"
  class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.MindRpcSerializer" />

<ip:tcp-connection-factory id="clientConnectionFactory"
  type="client"
  host="localhost"
  port="${SHDP_AMSERVICE_PORT}"
  serializer="serializer"
  deserializer="deserializer"/>

<ip:tcp-outbound-gateway id="outboundGateway"
  connection-factory="clientConnectionFactory"
  request-channel="clientRequestChannel"
  reply-channel="clientResponseChannel" />

<int:channel id="clientRequestChannel" />
<int:channel id="clientResponseChannel" >
  <int:queue />
</int:channel>
		
<yarn-int:amservice-client
  service-impl="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.DefaultMindAppmasterServiceClient"
  request-channel="clientRequestChannel"
  response-channel="clientResponseChannel"/>

In this chapter we assume you are fairly familiar with concepts using Spring Batch. Many batch processing problems can be solved with single threaded, single process jobs, so it is always a good idea to properly check if that meets your needs before thinking about more complex implementations. When you are ready to start implementing a job with some parallel processing, Spring Batch offers a range of options. At a high level there are two modes of parallel processing: single process, multi-threaded; and multi-process.

Spring Hadoop contains a support for running Spring Batch jobs on a Hadoop cluster. For better parallel processing Spring Batch partitioned steps can be executed on a Hadoop cluster as remote steps.

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.batch.support.transaction.ResourcelessTransactionManager"/>

<bean id="jobRepository" class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.MapJobRepositoryFactoryBean">
  <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>
</bean>

<bean id="jobLauncher" class="org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher">
  <property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository"/>
</bean>

<bean id="yarnEventPublisher" class="org.springframework.yarn.event.DefaultYarnEventPublisher"/>
	  
<yarn-batch:master/>

<bean id="hello" class="org.springframework.yarn.examples.PrintTasklet">
  <property name="message" value="Hello"/>
</bean>

<batch:job id="job">
  <batch:step id="master">
    <batch:tasklet transaction-manager="transactionManager" ref="hello"/>
  </batch:step>
</batch:job>

11.12.2 Partitioning

Let's take a quick look how Spring Batch partitioning is handled. Concept of running a partitioned job involves three things, Remote steps, Partition Handler and a Partitioner. If we do a little bit of oversimplification a remote step is like any other step from a user point of view. Spring Batch itself does not contain implementations for any proprietary grid or remoting fabrics. Spring Batch does however provide a useful implementation of PartitionHandler that executes Steps locally in separate threads of execution, using the TaskExecutor strategy from Spring. Spring Hadoop provides implementation to execute Steps remotely on a Hadoop cluster.

	Note
	For more background information about the Spring Batch Partitioning, read the Spring Batch reference documentation.

Configuring Master

As we previously mentioned a step executed on a remote host also need to access a job repository. If job repository would be based on a database instance, configuration could be similar on a container compared to application master. In our configuration example the job repository is in-memory based and remote steps needs access for it. Spring Yarn Batch contains implementation of a job repository which is able to proxy request via json requests. Order to use that we need to enable application client service which is exposing this service.

<bean id="jobRepositoryRemoteService" class="org.springframework.yarn.batch.repository.JobRepositoryRemoteService" >
  <property name="mapJobRepositoryFactoryBean" ref="&amp;jobRepository"/>
</bean>

<bean id="batchService" class="org.springframework.yarn.batch.repository.BatchAppmasterService" >
  <property name="jobRepositoryRemoteService" ref="jobRepositoryRemoteService"/>
</bean>

<yarn-int:amservice service-ref="batchService"/>

he declaration above defines JobRepositoryRemoteService bean named jobRepositoryRemoteService which is then connected into Application Master Service exposing job repository via Spring Integration Tcp channels.

As job repository communication messages are exchanged via custom json messages, converters needs to be defined.

<bean id="mapper" class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.support.Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean" />

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindObjectToHolderConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindHolderToObjectConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
    <constructor-arg value="org.springframework.yarn.batch.repository.bindings"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

Configuring Container

Previously we made a choice to use in-memore job repository running inside the application master. Now we need to talk to this repository via client service. We start by adding same converters as in application master.

<bean id="mapper" class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.support.Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean" />

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindObjectToHolderConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

<yarn-int:converter>
  <bean class="org.springframework.yarn.integration.convert.MindHolderToObjectConverter">
    <constructor-arg ref="mapper"/>
    <constructor-arg value="org.springframework.yarn.batch.repository.bindings"/>
  </bean>
</yarn-int:converter>

We use general client implementation able to communicate with a service running on Application Master.

<yarn-int:amservice-client
  service-impl="org.springframework.yarn.integration.ip.mind.DefaultMindAppmasterServiceClient"
  host="${SHDP_AMSERVICE_HOST}"
  port="${SHDP_AMSERVICE_PORT}" />

Remote step is just like any other step.

<bean id="hello" class="org.springframework.yarn.examples.PrintTasklet">
  <property name="message" value="Hello"/>
</bean>

<batch:step id="remoteStep">
  <batch:tasklet transaction-manager="transactionManager" start-limit="100" ref="hello"/>
</batch:step>

We need to have a way to locate the step from an application context. For this we can define a step locator which is later configured into running container.

<bean id="stepLocator" class="org.springframework.yarn.batch.partition.BeanFactoryStepLocator"/>

Spring Hadoop contains a custom job repository implementation which is able to talk back to a remote instance via custom json protocol.

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.batch.support.transaction.ResourcelessTransactionManager"/>

<bean id="jobRepository" class="org.springframework.yarn.batch.repository.RemoteJobRepositoryFactoryBean">
  <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>
  <property name="appmasterScOperations" ref="yarnAmserviceClient"/>
</bean>

<bean id="jobExplorer" class="org.springframework.yarn.batch.repository.RemoteJobExplorerFactoryBean">
  <property name="repositoryFactory" ref="&amp;jobRepository" />
</bean>

Finally we define a Container understanding how to work with a remote steps.

<bean id="yarnContainer" class="org.springframework.yarn.batch.container.DefaultBatchYarnContainer">
  <property name="stepLocator" ref="stepLocator"/>
  <property name="jobExplorer" ref="jobExplorer"/>
  <property name="integrationServiceClient" ref="yarnAmserviceClient"/>
</bean>

We have additional support for leveraging Spring Boot when creating applications using Spring YARN. All dependencies for this exists in a sub-module named spring-yarn-boot which itself depends on Spring Boot.

Spring Boot extensions in Spring YARN are used to ease following issues:

Before we get into details let's go through how simple it is to create and deploy a custom application to a Hadoop cluster. Notice that there are no need to use XML.

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class ContainerApplication {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(ContainerApplication.class, args);
  }

  @Bean
  public HelloPojo helloPojo() {
    return new HelloPojo();
  }

}

In above ContainerApplication, notice how we added @Configuration in a class level itself and @Bean for a helloPojo() method.

@YarnComponent
public class HelloPojo {

  private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(HelloPojo.class);

  @Autowired
  private Configuration configuration;

  @OnContainerStart
  public void publicVoidNoArgsMethod() {
    log.info("Hello from HelloPojo");
    log.info("About to list from hdfs root content");
    FsShell shell = new FsShell(configuration);
    for (FileStatus s : shell.ls(false, "/")) {
      log.info(s);
    }
  }

}

HelloPojo class is a simple POJO in a sense that it doesn't extend any Spring YARN base classes. What we did in this class:

To demonstrate that we actually have some real functionality in this class, we simply use Spring Hadoop's FsShell to list entries from a root of a HDFS file system. For this we need to have access to Hadoop's Configuration which is prepared for you so that you can just autowire it.

@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class ClientApplication {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(ClientApplication.class, args)
      .getBean(YarnClient.class)
      .submitApplication();
  }

}

The main() method uses Spring Boot's SpringApplication.run() method to launch an application. From there we simply request a bean of type YarnClient and execute its submitApplication() method. What happens next depends on application configuration, which we go through later in this document.

@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class AppmasterApplication {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(AppmasterApplication.class, args);
  }

}

Application class for YarnAppmaster looks even simpler than what we just did for ClientApplication. Again the main() method uses Spring Boot's SpringApplication.run() method to launch an application.

In real life, you most likely need to start adding more custom functionality to your application component and you'd do that by start adding more beans. To do that you need to define a Spring @Configuration or @ComponentScan. AppmasterApplication would then act as your main starting point to define more custom functionality.

spring:
  hadoop:
    fsUri: hdfs://localhost:8020
    resourceManagerHost: localhost
  yarn:
    appName: yarn-boot-simple
    applicationDir: /app/yarn-boot-simple/
    client:
      files:
       - "file:build/libs/yarn-boot-simple-container-0.1.0.jar"
       - "file:build/libs/yarn-boot-simple-appmaster-0.1.0.jar"
      launchcontext:
        archiveFile: yarn-boot-simple-appmaster-0.1.0.jar
    appmaster:
      containerCount: 1
      launchcontext:
        archiveFile: yarn-boot-simple-container-0.1.0.jar

Final part for your application is its runtime configuration which glues all the components together which then can be called as a Spring YARN application. This configuration act as source for Spring Boot's @ConfigurationProperties and contains relevant configuration properties which cannot be auto-discovered or otherwise needs to have an option to be overwritten by an end user.

You can then write your own defaults for your own environment. Because these @ConfigurationProperties are resolved at runtime by Spring Boot, you even have an easy option to overwrite these properties either by using command-line options or provide additional configuration property files.

spring:
  yarn:
    client:
      launchcontext:
        archiveFile: yarn-boot-appmaster-0.1.0.jar
    appmaster:
      launchcontext:
        archiveFile: yarn-boot-container-0.1.0.jar

spring:
  yarn:
    siteYarnAppClasspath: "/path/to/hadoop/libs/*"
    appmaster:
      launchcontext:
        useYarnAppClasspath: true
        archiveFile: yarn-boot-container-0.1.0.zip

spring:
  yarn:
    appmaster:
      launchcontext:
        archiveFile: yarn-boot-container-0.1.0.zip
        containerAppClasspath:
         - "./yarn-boot-container-0.1.0.zip/config"
         - "./yarn-boot-container-0.1.0.zip/lib"

spring:
  yarn:
    appmaster:
      launchcontext:
        runnerClass: com.example.MyMainClazz

spring:
  yarn:
    client:
      localizer:
        patterns:
         - "*appmaster*jar"
         - "*appmaster*zip"
        zipPattern: "*zip"
        propertiesNames: [application]
        propertiesSuffixes: [properties, yml]
    appmaster:
      localizer:
        patterns:
         - "*container*jar"
         - "*container*zip"
        zipPattern: "*zip"
        propertiesNames: [application]
        propertiesSuffixes: [properties, yml]

public interface LocalResourcesSelector {
  List<Entry> select(String dir);
}

@Configuration
@EnableConfigurationProperties({ SpringYarnAppmasterLocalizerProperties.class })
public static class LocalResourcesSelectorConfig {

  @Autowired
  private SpringYarnAppmasterLocalizerProperties syalp;

  @Bean
  @ConditionalOnMissingBean(LocalResourcesSelector.class)
  public LocalResourcesSelector localResourcesSelector() {
    BootLocalResourcesSelector selector = new BootLocalResourcesSelector(Mode.CONTAINER);
    if (StringUtils.hasText(syalp.getZipPattern())) {
      selector.setZipArchivePattern(syalp.getZipPattern());
    }
    if (syalp.getPropertiesNames() != null) {
      selector.setPropertiesNames(syalp.getPropertiesNames());
    }
    if (syalp.getPropertiesSuffixes() != null) {
      selector.setPropertiesSuffixes(syalp.getPropertiesSuffixes());
    }
    selector.addPatterns(syalp.getPatterns());
    return selector;
  }
}

@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class AppmasterApplication {

  @Bean
  public LocalResourcesSelector localResourcesSelector() {
    return MyLocalResourcesSelector();
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(AppmasterApplication.class, args);
  }

}

@OnContainerStart
public void publicVoidNoArgsMethod() {
}

@OnContainerStart
public int publicIntNoArgsMethod() {
  return 0;
}

@OnContainerStart
public boolean publicBooleanNoArgsMethod() {
  return true;
}

@OnContainerStart
public String publicStringNoArgsMethod() {
  return "COMPLETE";
}

@OnContainerStart
public void publicThrowsException() {
  throw new RuntimeExection("My Error");
}

@OnContainerStart
public void publicVoidEnvironmentsArgsMethod(@YarnEnvironments Map<String,String> env) {
}

@OnContainerStart
public void publicVoidEnvironmentArgsMethod(@YarnEnvironment("key") String value) {
}

@OnContainerStart
public void publicVoidParametersArgsMethod(@YarnParameters Properties properties) {
}

@OnContainerStart
public void publicVoidParameterArgsMethod(@YarnParameter("key") String value) {
}

spring:
  hadoop:
    fsUri: hdfs://localhost:8020
    resourceManagerHost: localhost
  yarn:
    appType: GS
    appName: gs-yarn-appmodel
    applicationBaseDir: /app/
    applicationDir: /app/gs-yarn-appmodel/
    client:
      clientClass: org.springframework.yarn.client.DefaultApplicationYarnClient
      files:
        - "file:build/libs/gs-yarn-appmodel-container-0.1.0.jar"
        - "file:build/libs/gs-yarn-appmodel-appmaster-0.1.0.jar"
      launchcontext:
        archiveFile: gs-yarn-appmodel-appmaster-0.1.0.jar
    appmaster:
      containerCount: 1
      launchcontext:
        archiveFile: gs-yarn-appmodel-container-0.1.0.jar

public void doInstall() {
  YarnPushApplication app = new YarnPushApplication();
  app.applicationVersion("version1");
  Properties instanceProperties = new Properties();
  instanceProperties.setProperty("spring.yarn.applicationVersion", "version1");
  app.configFile("application.properties", instanceProperties);
  app.run();
}

public void doSubmit() {
  YarnSubmitApplication app = new YarnSubmitApplication();
  app.applicationVersion("version1");
  ApplicationId applicationId = app.run();
}

public void doListPushed() {
  YarnInfoApplication app = new YarnInfoApplication();
  Properties appProperties = new Properties();
  appProperties.setProperty("spring.yarn.internal.YarnInfoApplication.operation", "PUSHED");
  app.appProperties(appProperties);
  String info = app.run();
  System.out.println(info);
}

public void doListSubmitted() {
  YarnInfoApplication app = new YarnInfoApplication();
  Properties appProperties = new Properties();
  appProperties.setProperty("spring.yarn.internal.YarnInfoApplication.operation", "SUBMITTED");
  appProperties.setProperty("spring.yarn.internal.YarnInfoApplication.verbose", "true");
  appProperties.setProperty("spring.yarn.internal.YarnInfoApplication.type", "GS");
  app.appProperties(appProperties);
  String info = app.run();
  System.out.println(info);
}

public void doKill() {
  YarnKillApplication app = new YarnKillApplication();
  Properties appProperties = new Properties();
  appProperties.setProperty("spring.yarn.internal.YarnKillApplication.applicationId", "application_1395058039949_0052");
  app.appProperties(appProperties);
  String info = app.run();
  System.out.println(info);
}