Create an App

POST /api/v1.2/apps

Use this API to create a Spark Job Server App. The Spark Job Server allows you to start a long-running Spark application and fire many code snippets at that Spark application. The benefits of using a Job Server are:

Code snippets do not incur startup cost making the application run faster.
One code snippet can depend on the result of the previous code snippet and thus the application runs incremently.

For more information on Spark Job Server, see Understanding the Spark Job Server.

Required Role

The following users can make this API call:

Users who belong to the system-user or system-admin group.
Users who belong to a group associated with a role that allows creating an account. See Managing Groups and Managing Roles for more information.

Parameters

Note

Parameters marked in bold below are mandatory. Others are optional and have default values.

Parameter	Description
name	Name of the Spark Job Server App.
config	This parameter denotes the Spark job configuration along with its value. It allows an array of Spark Job configuration and its value.
kind	This parameter denotes the type of application. Currently, Qubole supports only Spark application.

Request API Syntax

curl -i -X POST -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN: $AUTH_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{ "name": "<App Name>", "config":[ {"<Job Config>": "<value>"}, {"<Job Config>": "<value>"}] "kind": "spark"}' \
    "https://api.qubole.com/api/v1.2/apps"

Note

The above syntax uses https://api.qubole.com as the endpoint. Qubole provides other endpoints to access QDS that are described in Supported Qubole Endpoints on Different Cloud Providers.

Sample Request

Here is a sample request API to create a new Spark Job Server App.

curl -i -X POST -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN: $AUTH_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" \
 -d '{ "name": "sparkjob_app", "config": {"spark.executor.memory": "3g"}, "kind": "spark"}' \
    "https://api.qubole.com/api/v1.2/apps"