HBaseThriftPythonClient

TSaslClientTransport and THttpClient example for hbase thrift python client.

The thrift python bindings are compiled using Apache Thrift compiler.

Compile steps:

https://thrift.apache.org/docs/install/

https://docs.cloudera.com/runtime/7.2.10/accessing-hbase/topics/hbase-use-apache-thrift-proxy-api.html

Requirements:

Python version: 3.6.8 pip version: 21.3.1

pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv py3env
source py3env/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Package Version:

kerberos 1.3.1
pip 21.3.1
six 1.16.0
pure-sasl 0.6.2
setuptools 58.3.0
wheel 0.37.0

Note:

1. TSaslClientTransport works only after CDP 7.1.7, the earlier CDP version has known bug https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21652
2. THttpClient can work in all CDP version with kerberos and SSL enabled at same time.