Importing and Configuring an OpenTSDB Sample Project

Prerequisites

Ensure that the time difference between a local computer and the MRS cluster is less than 5 minutes. Time of the MRS cluster can be viewed in the upper right corner on the MRS Manager page. See Figure 1.

Figure 1 Time of the MRS cluster

Procedure

1. Obtain the OpenTSDB sample project by referring to Obtaining the MRS Application Development Sample Project.
2. In the root directory of the OpenTSDB sample project, run the mvn install command to perform compilation.
3. In the root directory of the OpenTSDB sample project, run the mvn eclipse:eclipse command to create an Eclipse project.
4. In the application development environment, import the sample project to the Eclipse development environment.
   1. Choose File > Import > General > Existing Projects into Workspace > Next > Browse.

      The Browse Folder dialog box is displayed.

   2. Select the sample project folder, and click Finish.

5. Set an Eclipse text file encoding format to prevent garbled characters.
   1. On the Eclipse menu bar, choose Window > Preferences.

      The Preferences window is displayed.

   2. In the navigation tree, choose General > Workspace. In the Text file encoding area, select Other and set the value to UTF-8. Click Apply and then OK. Figure 2 shows the settings.

      Setting the Eclipse encoding format

      Figure 2 Setting the Eclipse encoding format