[CASSANDRA-8864] NPE in CQLSSTableWriter when bulk loading data from Hadoop

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Benjamin Lerer
• Reporter: Jimmy Mårdell

Authors

Benjamin Lerer

• Created: 25/Feb/15 17:20
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 04/Mar/15 10:38

Description

CASSANDRA-8280 introduced a bug in CQLSSTableWriter when used by CqlBulkRecordWriter. It assumes fields in the DatabaseDescriptor is set when they are not, causing NPE.

Relevant stack trace below.

Error: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.createAllDirectories(DatabaseDescriptor.java:605)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.Keyspace.<clinit>(Keyspace.java:73)
at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.statements.UpdateStatement.addUpdateForKey(UpdateStatement.java:109)
at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.CQLSSTableWriter.rawAddRow(CQLSSTableWriter.java:218)
at com.spotify.hdfs2cass.cassandra.cql.CrunchCqlBulkRecordWriter.write(CrunchCqlBulkRecordWriter.java:114)
at com.spotify.hdfs2cass.cassandra.cql.CrunchCqlBulkRecordWriter.write(CrunchCqlBulkRecordWriter.java:51)
at org.apache.crunch.io.CrunchOutputs.write(CrunchOutputs.java:133)
at org.apache.crunch.impl.mr.emit.MultipleOutputEmitter.emit(MultipleOutputEmitter.java:41)
at org.apache.crunch.MapFn.process(MapFn.java:34)

Issue Links

• duplicates: CASSANDRA-8808 CQLSSTableWriter: close does not work + more than one table throws ex