Packages
Package	Description
com.cloudera.api	This document describes the Cloudera Manager REST API.
com.cloudera.api.model	Java models of the underlying API JSON objects, with JAX-B annotations.
com.cloudera.api.v1	API version 1, introduced in Cloudera Manager 4.0.
com.cloudera.api.v2	API version 2, introduced in Cloudera Manager 4.1.
com.cloudera.api.v3	API version 3, introduced in Cloudera Manager 4.5.

This is the reference for the Java client to Cloudera Manager (CM).

Getting Started

While the CM API is defined as a RESTful HTTP API, using JSON objects for requests and responses, you rarely need to interact with the HTTP or JSON layer as a user of the Java client. The Java client is a proxy, built from the same JAX-RS interface that defines the server-side implementation.

The main entry point to the Java client is via the ClouderaManagerClientBuilder. For example:


    RootResourceV3 apiRoot = new ClouderaManagerClientBuilder()
        .withHost("your.cm.com")
        .withUsernamePassword("admin", "admin")
        .build()
        .getRootV3();

Versions and Compatibility

In the snippet above, the final call to getRootV3() returns a RootResourceV3. Alternatively, a call to getRootV2() would return the v2 equivalent. You should use the version that corresponds to your CM installation, which you can find out by accessing http://your.cm.com:7180/api/version.

Within the same major version of CM, API support is backwards compatible. For example, CM 4.5 introduces API v3, and it also accepts API requests of v1 (CM 4.0) and v2 (CM 4.1).

Error Codes

Upon errors, the client will throw exceptions with HTTP error codes in the 400s and 500s:

400 — Invalid request parameters; Malformed requests
401 — Authentication failure
403 — Authorization failure
404 — Object not found
500 — Internal API error
503 — Response temporarily unavailable; caller should retry later

Cloudera Manager API (4.5.2)

Getting Started

Versions and Compatibility

Error Codes