a simple script to send start stop restart commands to hive using cm api

hive_ctl.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib
import urllib2
import sys
import json
from json import JSONDecoder



def command_hive( ACTION ):
	USER = "admin"
	PASS = "admin"
	URL = "http://ec2-52-19-119-223.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:7180/api/v11/clusters/mboeru/services/hive/commands/"+ACTION
	VALUES = { }

	DATA = urllib.urlencode(VALUES)

	# simple wrapper function to encode the username & pass
	def encodeUserData(user, password):
	    return "Basic " + (user + ":" + password).encode("base64").rstrip()
	req = urllib2.Request(URL,DATA)
	req.add_header('Accept', 'application/json')
	req.add_header("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
	req.add_header('Authorization', encodeUserData(USER, PASS))

	res = urllib2.urlopen(req)
	print res.read()


if len(sys.argv) == 2:
	print "Running command "+sys.argv[1]
	command_hive(sys.argv[1])
else:
	print "Need to add a command to run. EX: start, stop, restart"