REST Introduction

Exhibitor is written as a REST application with a UI which uses that REST API. Therefore, all features of Exhibitor can be controlled programmatically via REST.

Entities

Exhibitor uses a number of custom entities in its APIs. All entities are received and/or returned as JSON.

API Groups

The API is broken into a few groups:

Cluster	APIs for dealing with the ZooKeeper ensemble
Configuration	APIs to manage the [Shared Configuration]
Index	APIs to manage the backup/indexing of the ZooKeeper transaction logs
Modify	APIs to modify ZooKeeper nodes/data