[HBASE-1292] php thrift's getRow() would throw an exception if the row does not exist

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.19.0, 0.19.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.2, 0.20.0
• Component/s: Thrift
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change
• Release Note: thrift's getRow*() now throws NotFound if the row key does not exist
• Assignee: Rong-En Fan
• Reporter: Rong-En Fan
• Created: 27/Mar/09 14:17
• Updated: 13/Sep/09 22:24
• Resolved: 23/Apr/09 20:39

Description

I've been played with thrift recently, and observed an unexpected behavior: when getRow() encounters an non-existent row key, it throws an exception like this:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'getRow failed: unknown result' in pear/thrift/packages/Hbase/Hbase.php:715

Stack trace:
#0 pear/thrift/packages/Hbase/Hbase.php(666): HbaseClient->recv_getRow()
#1 htdocs/hbase/DemoClient.php(174): HbaseClient->getRow('demo_table', '00100-XXXX')
#2

{main}

thrown in pear/thrift/packages/Hbase/Hbase.php on line 715

I would expect when we pass a non-existent key, it can throw something like NotFound (as in scanner) or one can test with RowResult.isEmpty() just like in java api.

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-1301 HTable.getRow() returns null if the row does no exist