Rest api

Functionality

Through our REST API a user is able to:

• to request the execution plan from Exareme
• submit queries
• retrieve results

##Settings A POST request is used to perform any of the tasks described in Functionality.

• Exareme listens on port 9090
• ** Content Type** should be application/x-www-form-uriencoded
• Every request should contain a form with the following values:
  • db : path to the database
  • query : the ExaDFL query

Example

Exareme on its default settings listen on port 9090.

With the following request you can get the execution query plan:

URL: http://localhost:9090/query/

With the following request you can submit queries:

URL: http://localhost:9090/explain/

-- mode: json or viz

(viz return a html page that shows a graphic representation of the execution plan, same colors represent same workers)