Apex CLI, the Apache Apex command line interface, can be used to launch, monitor, and manage Apache Apex applications. It provides a developer friendly way of interacting with Apache Apex platform. Another advantage of Apex CLI is to provide scope, by connecting and executing commands in a context of specific application. Apex CLI enables easy integration with existing enterprise toolset for automated application monitoring and management. Currently the following high level tasks are supported.
Apex CLI can be launched by running following command
apex
Help on all commands is available via “help” command in the CLI
GLOBAL COMMANDS EXCEPT WHEN CHANGING LOGICAL PLAN: alias alias-name command Create a command alias begin-macro name Begin Macro Definition ($1...$9 to access parameters and type 'end' to end the definition) connect app-id Connect to an app dump-properties-file out-file jar-file class-name Dump the properties file of an app class echo [arg ...] Echo the arguments exit Exit the CLI get-app-info app-id Get the information of an app get-app-package-info app-package-file Get info on the app package file get-app-package-operator-properties app-package-file operator-class Get operator properties within the given app package get-app-package-operators [options] app-package-file [search-term] Get operators within the given app package Options: -parent Specify the parent class for the operators get-config-parameter [parameter-name] Get the configuration parameter get-jar-operator-classes [options] jar-files-comma-separated [search-term] List operators in a jar list Options: -parent Specify the parent class for the operators get-jar-operator-properties jar-files-comma-separated operator-class-name List properties in specified operator help [command] Show help kill-app app-id/app-name [app-id/app-name ...] Kill an app launch [options] jar-file/json-file/properties-file/app-package-file [matching-app-name] Launch an app Options: -apconf <app package configuration file> Specify an application configuration file within the app package if launching an app package. -archives <comma separated list of archives> Specify comma separated archives to be unarchived on the compute machines. -conf <configuration file> Specify an application configuration file. -D <property=value> Use value for given property. -exactMatch Only consider applications with exact app name -files <comma separated list of files> Specify comma separated files to be copied on the compute machines. -ignorepom Do not run maven to find the dependency -libjars <comma separated list of libjars> Specify comma separated jar files or other resource files to include in the classpath. -local Run application in local mode. -originalAppId <application id> Specify original application identifier for restart. -queue <queue name> Specify the queue to launch the application list-application-attributes Lists the application attributes list-apps [pattern] List applications list-operator-attributes Lists the operator attributes list-port-attributes Lists the port attributes set-pager on/off Set the pager program for output show-logical-plan [options] jar-file/app-package-file [class-name] List apps in a jar or show logical plan of an app class Options: -exactMatch Only consider exact match for app name -ignorepom Do not run maven to find the dependency -libjars <comma separated list of jars> Specify comma separated jar/resource files to include in the classpath. shutdown-app app-id [app-id ...] Shutdown an app source file Execute the commands in a file
COMMANDS WHEN CONNECTED TO AN APP (via connect <appid>) EXCEPT WHEN CHANGING LOGICAL PLAN: begin-logical-plan-change Begin Logical Plan Change dump-properties-file out-file [jar-file] [class-name] Dump the properties file of an app class get-app-attributes [attribute-name] Get attributes of the connected app get-app-info [app-id] Get the information of an app get-operator-attributes operator-name [attribute-name] Get attributes of an operator get-operator-properties operator-name [property-name] Get properties of a logical operator get-physical-operator-properties [options] operator-id Get properties of a physical operator Options: -propertyName <property name> The name of the property whose value needs to be retrieved -waitTime <wait time> How long to wait to get the result get-port-attributes operator-name port-name [attribute-name] Get attributes of a port get-recording-info [operator-id] [start-time] Get tuple recording info kill-app [<app-id/app-name> ...] Kill an app kill-container container-id [container-id ...] Kill a container list-containers List containers list-operators [pattern] List operators set-operator-property operator-name property-name property-value Set a property of an operator set-physical-operator-property operator-id property-name property-value Set a property of an operator show-logical-plan [options] [jar-file/app-package-file] [class-name] Show logical plan of an app class Options: -exactMatch Only consider exact match for app name -ignorepom Do not run maven to find the dependency -libjars <comma separated list of jars> Specify comma separated jar/resource files to include in the classpath. show-physical-plan Show physical plan shutdown-app [app-id ...] Shutdown an app start-recording operator-id [port-name] [num-windows] Start recording stop-recording operator-id [port-name] Stop recording wait timeout Wait for completion of current application
COMMANDS WHEN CHANGING LOGICAL PLAN (via begin-logical-plan-change): abort Abort the plan change add-stream-sink stream-name to-operator-name to-port-name Add a sink to an existing stream create-operator operator-name class-name Create an operator create-stream stream-name from-operator-name from-port-name to-operator-name to-port-name Create a stream help [command] Show help remove-operator operator-name Remove an operator remove-stream stream-name Remove a stream set-operator-attribute operator-name attr-name attr-value Set an attribute of an operator set-operator-property operator-name property-name property-value Set a property of an operator set-port-attribute operator-name port-name attr-name attr-value Set an attribute of a port set-stream-attribute stream-name attr-name attr-value Set an attribute of a stream show-queue Show the queue of the plan change submit Submit the plan change
An example of defining a custom macro. The macro updates a running application by inserting a new operator. It takes three parameters and executes a logical plan changes.
apex> begin-macro add-console-output macro> begin-logical-plan-change macro> create-operator $1 com.datatorrent.lib.io.ConsoleOutputOperator macro> create-stream stream_$1 $2 $3 $1 in macro> submit
Then execute the add-console-output
macro like this
apex> add-console-output xyz opername portname
This macro then expands to run the following command
begin-logical-plan-change create-operator xyz com.datatorrent.lib.io.ConsoleOutputOperator create-stream stream_xyz opername portname xyz in submit
Note: To perform runtime logical plan changes, like ability to add new operators, they must be part of the jar files that were deployed at application launch time.
kill-app terminates operators in undefined order, causing some operators to not process data emitted by input operators. Such application can be restarted from last checkpointed state using launch -originalAppId
command. As application is relaunched from checkpointed state there will be no data loss.
shutdown-app This command is to terminate the application while making sure that all data emitted by input operators are processed throughout the DAG. Application terminated with shutdown-app
command can not be restarted, as application is considered to be completed successfully.