[CASSANDRA-12609] sstableloader NPE when partial directory path is given

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.10
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Hannu Kröger
• Reporter: Hannu Kröger

Authors

Hannu Kröger

Reviewers

Dave Brosius

• Created: 04/Sep/16 11:02
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 04/Sep/16 14:38

Description

If a user is running sstableloader for example in the directory where the sstables are the parameter given is not the full <keyspace>/<table> directory. That causes a NPE:

hkroger@home:~/data/temperatures/clients-f3ae39a0854411e5927a9f25d4de7071
$ ~/work/cassandra/bin/sstableloader  -d 127.0.0.1  .
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
       	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableLoader.<init>(SSTableLoader.java:65)
       	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader.load(BulkLoader.java:65)
       	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader.main(BulkLoader.java:49)