[HBASE-10429] Make Visibility Controller to throw a better msg if it is of type RegionServerCoprocessor

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.99.0
• Component/s: Coprocessors
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
• Reporter: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
• Created: 28/Jan/14 05:29
• Updated: 21/Feb/15 23:32
• Resolved: 28/Jan/14 23:45

Description

If Visbility controller is configured as RegionServerCP then we are not throwing the proper response in the error msg. Instead we say zk == null.

This JIRA just tries to throw a proper error msg in case Visibility CP is of type RegionServerCP.
Andrew Kyle Purtell
If you are fine with the patch attached, we can include this in our next RC.