Converting fid and volid

The following filesystem APIs are available in com.mapr.fs.MapRFileSystem for converting fid to file path and volid to volume name:

public String getMountPathFidCached(String fidStr) throws IOException
public String getVolumeNameCached(int volId) throws IOException
public String getVolumeName(int volId) throws IOException
public String getMountPathFid(String fidStr) throws IOException

Converting fid to File Path

The getMountPathFid(string) and getMountPathFidCached(string) APIs can be used for converting file ID to the full path to the file. The getMountPathFid() API makes a call to CLDB and filesystem to get the file path from the fid. Because this API does not cache or store this information locally, it might make repeated requests to CLDB and filesystem for the same fid and this might result in many RPCs to both CLDB and filesystem. The getMountPathFidCached() API makes a call the CLDB and filesystem one time and stores the information locally in the shared library of the client. For subsequent calls, it uses the locally stored information to retrieve the file path from the fid. However, if there are many files in the volume, there might still be a large number of calls to CLDB and filesystem to determine the file path for each fid in the volume. The caching is useful if the API attempts to determine the file path for the same fid repeatedly. The cache is purged after 15 seconds. If the file name changes before the cache is purged, you will see the old name for the file until the cache expires. You can use these APIs to convert the fid to the file path.

For example, the sample consumer application and the sample uncached consumer application for consuming audit logs as stream messages use these methods as shown below.

Sample Cached Cosumer

{
     String token = st1.nextToken();
     /* If the field has fid, expand it using Cached API */
     if (token.endsWith("Fid")) {
       String lfidStr = st1.nextToken();
       String path= null;
       try {
           path = fs.getMountPathFidCached(lfidStr); // Expand FID to path
       } catch (IOException e){
     }
     lfidPath = "\"FidPath\":\""+path+"\",";
     // System.out.println("\nPAth for fid " + lfidStr +  "is " +  path);
}

Sample Uncached Consumer

{
     String token = st1.nextToken();
     if (token.endsWith("Fid")) {
         String lfidStr = st1.nextToken();
         String path= null;
         try {
           path = fs.getMountPathFid(lfidStr);// Expand FID to path
         } catch (IOException e){
         }
     lfidPath = "\"FidPath\":\""+path+"\",";
     // System.out.println("\nPAth for fid " + lfidStr +  "is " +  path);
}

Converting volid to Volume Name

The getVolumeName() and getVolumeNameCached() APIs can be used for converting volume IDs to volume name. The getVolumeName() API makes a call to the CLDB every time to get the volume name from the volid and this may result in too many RPCs to CLDB. The getVolumeNameCached() API makes a call the CLDB one time and stores the information locally in the shared library of the client. For subsequent calls, it uses the locally stored information to retrieve the volume name from the volid. The cache is purged after 15 seconds. You can use these APIs to convert the volid to volume name.

For example, the sample consumer application and the sample uncached consumer application for consuming audit logs as stream messages uses these methods as shown below.

Sample Cached Consumer

if (token.endsWith("volumeId")) {
       String volid = st1.nextToken();
       String name= null;
       try {
         int volumeId = Integer.parseInt(volid);
           // Cached API to convert volume Id to volume Name
           name = fs.getVolumeNameCached(volumeId);
         }
       catch (IOException e){
       }
       lvolName = "\"VolumeName\":\""+name+"\",";
       //  System.out.println("\nVolume Name for volid " + volid +  "is " +  name);
}

Sample Uncached Consumer

if (token.endsWith("volumeId")) {
       String volid = st1.nextToken();
       String name= null;
       try {
         int volumeId = Integer.parseInt(volid);
           // API to convert volume Id to volume Name
           name = fs.getVolumeName(volumeId);
         }
       catch (IOException e){
       }
       lvolName = "\"VolumeName\":\""+name+"\",";
       //  System.out.println("\nVolume Name for volid " + volid +  "is " +  name);
}