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This capability is currently under development.

Ambari Views offer a systematic way to plug-in UI capabilities to surface custom visualization, management and monitoring features in Ambari Web. A "view" is a way of extending Ambari that allows 3rd parties to plug in new resource types along with the APIs, providers and UI to support them. In other words, a view is an application that is deployed into the Ambari container.

Terminology

The following section describes the basic terminology associated with views.

TermDescription
View NameThe name of the view. The view name identifies the view to Ambari.
View VersionThe version of the view. A unique view name can have multiple versions deployed in Ambari.
View PackageThis is the JAR package that contains the view definition and all view resources (server-side classes, dependencies and client-side files) for a given version. See View Package for more information on the contents and structure of the package.
View DefinitionThis defines the view name, version, resources and required/optional configuration parameters for a view. The view definition file is included in the view package. See View Definition for more information on the view definition file syntax and features.
View InstanceAn unique instance of a view, that is based on a view definition and specific version that is configured. See Versions and Instances for more information.
View APIThe REST API for viewing the list of deployed views and creating view instances. See View API for more information.

View Package

The assets associated with a view are delivered as a JAR package. The view definition file must be at the root of the package. UI assets and server-side classes are served from the root. Dependent Java libraries are placed in the WEB-INF/lib directory.

view.jar
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|- view.xml
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|- <server packages + classes>
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|- <ui assets>
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|_ WEB-INF
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  |_ lib/*.jar

Versions and Instances

TBD

Useful Resources

 

 

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