Sqoop2 Quickstart

NOTE THAT the information mentioned on this page is still in progress and may not be fully implemented yet.

Building from sources

Checkout sources:

$ svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sqoop/branches/sqoop2

Then, change to Sqoop2 source directory and build them:

$ cd sqoop2
$ mvn install

Creating distribution

Now build and package Sqoop2 as distribution:

$ mvn package -Pdist

This process will create a directory and a tarball under dist/target directory. The directory (named sqoop-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT as of this writing) contains necessary binaries to run Sqoop2, and its structure looks something like

--+ bin --+ sqoop
  | 
  + conf --+ sqoop_bootstrap.properties
  |        |
  |        +- sqoop.properties
  |
  + server --+ bin --+ setenv.sh
  |          |
  |          + webapps --+ sqoop.war
  |
  + sqoop-client.jar
  |
  + sqoop-common.jar
  |
  + ...

As part of this process, a copy of Tomcat server is also downloaded and put under the server directory in the above structure.

Starting/Stopping Sqoop2 server

To start Sqoop2 server, change to Sqoop2 distribution directory and invoke the sqoop shell script:

cd dist/target/sqoop-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
bin/sqoop server start

Similarly, to stop Sqoop2 server, do the following:

bin/sqoop server stop

Starting/Running Sqoop2 client

To start an interactive shell,

bin/sqoop client

This will bring up an interactive client ready for input commands:

Sqoop Shell: Type 'help' or '\h' for help.

sqoop:000>

Alternatively, the shell client can be run in script mode. For example, a command script can be created as

echo "set server --host localhost --port 8080 --webapp sqoop" > sqoop.script
echo "show version --all" >> sqoop.script

Then, the command script can be run with

bin/sqoop client sqoop.script

The command for the shell client looks something like <command> <function> <options>:

• set
  • set server
    • set server --host <host>
    • set server --port <port>
    • set server --webapp <webapp>

• show
  • show version
    • show version --all
    • show version --server
    • show version --client
    • show version --protocol
      Unknown macro: {hide-if}

      – show connector
      – show connection
      – show job

      • create
        • create connection --id <connector id> <more connection options>
        • create job --cid <connection id> <more job options>

      • start
        • start job --jid <job id>

      • stop
        • stop job --jid <job id>