[CASSANDRA-4846] BulkLoader throws NPE at start up

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0 beta 2
• Labels: bulkloader
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
• Reporter: Yuki Morishita

Authors

Jonathan Ellis

Reviewers

Yuki Morishita

• Created: 22/Oct/12 17:10
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 23/Oct/12 20:27

Description

BulkLoader in trunk throws below exception at start up and exit abnormally.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.<init>(SSTableReader.java:87)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.open(SSTableReader.java:180)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.open(SSTableReader.java:148)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableLoader$1.accept(SSTableLoader.java:96)
	at java.io.File.list(File.java:1010)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableLoader.openSSTables(SSTableLoader.java:67)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableLoader.stream(SSTableLoader.java:117)
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader.main(BulkLoader.java:63)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService.initRowCache(CacheService.java:154)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService.<init>(CacheService.java:102)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService.<clinit>(CacheService.java:83)
	... 8 more

This comes from CASSANDRA-4732, which moved keyCache in SSTableReader initialization at instance creation. This causes access to CacheService that did not happen for v1.1 and ends up NPE because BulkLoader does not load cassandra.yaml.