This repo hosts a Python module that implements lightweight bindings for the MapR-DB JSON API, also known as the Open JSON Application Interface (OJAI).

• Python 3
• Maven - the mvn command should be in the $PATH.
• GCC (for C and C++) and Python headers may be required to build dependencies
• The mapr-client must be installed and configured, or run the module directly on MapR node.

You can install the package from the source in this repo or via pip. The installation process will pull the .jar files necessary to interact with your MapR-DB installation to provide the underlying support for the Python API.

An installation via either method may take several minutes because of the need to download these dependencies.

To install via source the following additional requirements must be met:

• setuptools must be installed (installable via pip3 or pip)
• Python 3 headers are recommended: this is usually installable via the pythonXX-devel package for your system

Check out the repo:

# git clone https://github.com/mapr-demos/python-bindings
# cd python-bindings

Edit the pom.xml file to match the version of the MapR platform you are using. This is under the dependency for com.mapr.db:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.mapr.db</groupId>
    <artifactId>maprdb</artifactId>
    <version>5.2.1-mapr</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Install the package:

# python3 setup.py install

In many installations pip3 is the command to install a Python 3 package.

# pip3 install maprdb
(...)
Collecting maprdb
Collecting JPype1==0.6.1 (from maprdb)
Collecting multipledispatch (from maprdb)
  Downloading multipledispatch-0.4.8.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: maprdb, JPype1, multipledispatch
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for maprdb
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for JPype1
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for multipledispatch
Successfully built maprdb JPype1 multipledispatch
Installing collected packages: JPype1, multipledispatch, maprdb
Successfully installed JPype1-0.6.1 maprdb-0.0.2 multipledispatch-0.4.8

The included unit tests can be run if you have one or more nodes of MapR available. The unit tests assume a host named maprdemo is running MapR-DB and available. You can add an entry to /etc/hosts such as 172.16.42.129 maprdemo that points to the instance with MapRDB running.

To run the unit tests:

Ensure that pytest is installed:

pip3 install pytest

Then,

python3 py.test

The empty dependencies directory is used at build time. Maven will download all necessary dependent jars and put them in this directory.

Then at run-time, the class path will be set so as to include all the jars in this directory.

Due to a limitation in the Java interfacing library, only one JVM can be started during Python interpreter session. Connection parameters to MapRDB should be specified in JVM parameters, hence only one connection to MapRDB can be opened.

The first call of maprdb.connect() starts the JVM. All subsequent calls will return the same connection with a warning message.

Also see this demo repo for a full example.

from maprdb import connect, Document, Mutation
# Make connection to MapRDB
connection = connect("/path/to/mapr/config")  # argument is not required

# Create some document
document1_key = "doc1"
document1 = Document({': document1_key, 'count': 7})

# Delete table if it's already present. Note JVM will be created only here,
# on the first place it is required
if connection.exists("/tmp/test_table"):
    connection.delete("/tmp/test_table")
table1 = connection.create("/tmp/test_table")

# Adding previously created document to the table
table1.insert_or_replace(document1)

# Making Mutation object and applying it to the document
mutation1 = Mutation().increment('count', 5)
table1.update(document1_key, mutation1)

table1.flush()

# Reading the document doc1
print(table1.find_by_id(document1_key))
>>> {'_id': 'doc1', 'count': 12}

Common configuration issues/errors are found here.

Exception `MapRDBError: com.mapr.db.exceptions.DBException: method()
failed.` along with a line in the log:
`ERROR Client fs/client/fileclient/cc/client.cc:864
Thread: 4187 Failed to initialize client for cluster demo.mapr.com,
error Connection reset by peer(104)`

The MapR-DB host(s) are not accessible. Check your mapr-clusters.conf file or review the documentation for client-side configurations here. this means that host with MapRDB you're trying to connect to is not accessible, check your connect() call and mapr-clusters.conf file.

maprdb.connect() returns connection with warning "Only one connection can be opened, previously created connection will be used."

This happens because your code called connect() several times. Only one connection can be opened during one Python interpreter session, so connect() always returns very first opened connection. See the above section under Additional Notes for details.

ERROR JniCommon fs/client/fileclient/cc/jni_MapRClient.cc:684
Thread: 47421 Mismatch found for java and native libraries java build
version 5.2.1.42646.GA, native build version 6.0.0.44429.BETA java
patch vserion $Id: mapr-version: 5.2.1.42646.GA 42646:812878ab1269
$, native patch version $Id: mapr-version: 6.0.0.44429.BETA
44429:e7073547c8a7fd5262b96 2017-08-02 18:55:35,2082 ERROR JniCommon
fs/client/fileclient/cc/jni_MapRClient.cc:701 Thread: 47421 Client
initialization failed.

There are a few ways to fix this.

First make sure that the MapR version in your pom.xml file (or the one installed with the package distribution) matches your installed MapR version. After changing, rebuild/reinstall from source using the above steps.

A simple way to synchronize the .jar files from an existing MapR installation to the jars used to build this module is to run the following steps -- note that this requires that you are building the package with at least the mapr-client package installed.

# git clone https://github.com/mapr-demos/python-bindings
# cd python-bindings
# python3 setup.py build
# for j in build/lib/maprdb/dependency/*.jar; do F=$(basename $j) ; if [ -f /opt/mapr/lib/$F ]; then cp /opt/mapr/lib/$F build/lib/maprdb/dependency/; fi done
# sudo python3 setup.py install