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Thanks for updating the list Tom.
St.Ack

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Tom Nichols <tmnichols@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well after digging (and digging... and digging some more) it turns out
> the source of the problem is in the Groovy Ant task.  Rather, the fact
> that ....hbase.Configuration uses the
> Thread.getCurrentThread().getContextClassloader(), which the Groovy
> Ant task leaves as the system classpath, as opposed to the <groovy
> classpathref='_____'> value.  So none of the HBase JARs were available
> to that classloader...  Which is why HBase couldn't find
> hbase-default.xml or hbase-site.xml.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Tom Nichols <tmnichols@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using the HBase client API in from a Groovy script:
> >
> > import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration
> > import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HBaseAdmin
> > println new HBaseAdmin( new HBaseConfiguration() )
> >
> > The script works fine if run standalone, but if I run it as an embeded
> > ant task, I get the following exception:
> >
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> >        at
> java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.get(ConcurrentHashMap.java:768)
> >        at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager.getConnection(HConnectionManager.java:90)
> >        at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HBaseAdmin.<init>(HBaseAdmin.java:66)
> >        at
> com.enernoc.rnd.shredder.core.groovy.HBaseBuilder.getAdmin(HBaseBuilder.java:530)
> >        at
> com.enernoc.rnd.shredder.core.groovy.HBaseBuilder.create(HBaseBuilder.java:229)
> >
> >
> > Looking into the code:
> > 86 :                     public static HConnection
> getConnection(HBaseConfiguration conf) {
> > 87 :                    TableServers connection;
> > 88 :                    synchronized (HBASE_INSTANCES) {
> > 89 :                    String instanceName = conf.get(HBASE_DIR);
> > 90 :                    connection = HBASE_INSTANCES.get(instanceName);
> >
> > It means that either "instanceName" is null, or HBASE_INSTANCES is
> > null.  I am guessing it is the former since the previous line is
> > retrieving that value.   So can anyone guess why this would fail?  The
> > HBase JAR is on my classpath, which contains the hbase-default.xml
> > config file (which has the hbase.rootdir value).
> >
> > Furthermore, it appears that the value "hbase.rootdir" is a server
> > configuration to tell the HBase server where the data is stored --
> > correct?  So if I am just using the client api (i.e. to connect to a
> > running HBase server instance,) why would the client be attempting to
> > directly access the data files rather than going through the server
> > connection?  Or am I confused about how the HBase API works?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for the help.
> >
> > -Tom
> >
>

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