A simple presentation regarding Mule HDFS Connector.

1. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR
BY – ANKUSH SHARMA

2. WHAT IS HDFS CONNECTOR?
• The Anypoint Connector for the Hadoop Distributed File System
(HDFS) is used as a bi-directional gateway between
applications. Its source is stored at the HDFS Connector GitHub
site.

3. PRE-REQUISITES
• To use the HDFS connector, you must have the following:
• A working Apache Hadoop Server.
• Anypoint Studio Community edition.

4. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR –
CONFIGURATION WIZARD (GENERAL TAB)
(CONT.)

5. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR –
CONFIGURATION WIZARD (GENERAL TAB)
• Following are the options on general tab –
• Display Name – The name of the component to be displayed in Mule
flow.
• Config Reference – Reference to the global configuration.
• Operation – The operation to be performed on server.
• Path – The path of the file to write to.
• Buffer Size – The buffer size to use for appending content in file.

6. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR –
CONFIGURATION WIZARD (CONNECTION
TAB) (CONT.)

7. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR –
CONFIGURATION WIZARD (CONNECTION
TAB)
• This tab is used to add a connection key.
• By default the connection key is ‘DEFAULT’.

8. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR – CONFIG
REFERENCE CONFIGURATION WIZARD
(GENERAL TAB) (CONT.)

9. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR – CONFIG
REFERENCE CONFIGURATION WIZARD
(GENERAL TAB)
• Following are the options in general tab –
• Name – The name of the configuration.
• Connection Key – The key used in connection.
• Default File System Name – The name of the file system to connect to.
• Configuration Resources – Use this radio button to configure various
resources.
• Configuration Enteries – Use this radio button to configure various
enteries.
• File System Reference – A readily configured to used to connect to HDFS.

10. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR – CONFIG REFERENCE
CONFIGURATION WIZARD (POOLING PROFILE
TAB) (CONT.)

11. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR – CONFIG
REFERENCE CONFIGURATION WIZARD
(POOLING PROFILE TAB)
• Mule HDFS connector configuration’s pooling profile tab
contains following properties –
• Max active – Property which define how many connections can be
there in connection pool.
• Max idle – Defines maximum number of connections that can be idle.
• Initialization policy – Defines how to initialize new connections.
• Exhausted action – Defines how to release a connection after usage.
• Max wait – Maximum time to wait for a new connection to be available.
• Min eviction time – Minimum amount of time a connection can sit idle
for.

12. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR – CONFIG REFERENCE
CONFIGURATION WIZARD (RECONNECTION TAB)
(CONT.)

13. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR – CONFIG
REFERENCE CONFIGURATION WIZARD
(RECONNECTION TAB)
• The Reconnection tab contains following properties –
• Do not use a Reconnection Strategy – This is the default radio button which
specifies do not try to reconnect if there is error connecting to the web
address URL.
• Standard Reconnection – Use this radio button to enable a standard
reconnection strategy.
• Frequency (ms) – The frequency time in milliseconds after which the HDFS
connector will try to access the web address URL.
• Reconnect Attempts – This tells how many times the HDFS connector will try to
connect to web address URL.
• Reconnector Forever – Check this box if there is need to make HDFS connector
connect to web address URL until there is a successful connection with it.
• Custom Reconnection – Use this radio button to create a custom
Reconnection strategy.
• Class – The java class which will come in action after a failed connection attempt.

14. MULE HDFS CONNECTOR –
CONFIGURATION WIZARD (NOTES TAB)
• Notes Tab is used to add special notes for Mule HDFS
Connector.

15. THANK YOU!