[CASSANDRA-12757] NPE if allocate_tokens_for_keyspace is typo/doesn't exist.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.x, 3.11.x
• Component/s: Local/Config
• Labels: lhf
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Assignee: Damien Stevenson
• Reporter: Jeremiah Jordan

Authors

Damien Stevenson

Reviewers

Yuki Morishita

• Created: 06/Oct/16 21:26
• Updated: 01/Jul/21 17:05

Description

If the keyspace specified in allocate_tokens_for_keyspace does not exist you get an NPE. Should probably have a better error here letting people know what the issue was.

INFO  21:07:22,582  StorageService.java:1152 - JOINING: getting bootstrap token
Exception (java.lang.NullPointerException) encountered during startup: null
ERROR 21:07:22,590  CassandraDaemon.java:709 - Exception encountered during startup
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
       at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.createReplicationStrategy(Keyspace.java:325) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8]
       at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.<init>(Keyspace.java:298) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8]
       at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.open(Keyspace.java:129) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8]
       at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.open(Keyspace.java:106) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8]
       at org.apache.cassandra.dht.BootStrapper.allocateTokens(BootStrapper.java:201) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8]
       at org.apache.cassandra.dht.BootStrapper.getBootstrapTokens(BootStrapper.java:173) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8:3.0.8]