How-to: enable hbase thrift support

Reference:

https://thrift.apache.org/docs/install/centos

http://yannramin.com/2008/07/19/using-facebook-thrift-with-python-and-hbase/
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/09/how-to-use-the-hbase-thrift-interface-part-1/

• Prepare environment for thrift installation:
  yum install gcc-c++
  

  Do following parts of https://thrift.apache.org/docs/install/centos
  - Upgrade autoconf

  - Upgrade automake

  - Upgrade bison

  - sudo yum -y install libevent-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel
  

  - Upgrade Boost

• Install thrift
  wget http://mirrors.cnnic.cn/apache/thrift/0.9.2/thrift-0.9.2.tar.gz
  tar xvf thrift-0.9.2.tar.gz
  cd thrift-0.9.2
  ./configure
  make
  make install
• Generate language classes, take python as example:
  cd ${HBASE_HOME}/hbase-thrift/src/main/resources/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/
  thrift --gen py Hbase.thrift
cp -r gen-py/* ${YourPythonProject} 
• Start hbase thrift:
cd ${HBASE_HOME}/bin
./hbase thrift start