[HBASE-16762] NullPointerException is thrown when constructing sourceTable in verifyrep

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Ted Yu
• Reporter: Ted Yu
• Created: 04/Oct/16 17:01
• Updated: 10/Oct/16 03:54
• Resolved: 10/Oct/16 03:54

Description

Branch-1 patch for HBASE-16423 incorrectly constructed sourceTable, leading to the following exception:

16/10/04 17:00:30 INFO mapreduce.Job: Task Id : attempt_1473183665588_0082_m_000016_1, Status : FAILED 
Error: java.lang.NullPointerException 
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName.valueOf(TableName.java:436) 
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.<init>(HTable.java:150) 
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.replication.VerifyReplication$Verifier.map(VerifyReplication.java:128) 
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.replication.VerifyReplication$Verifier.map(VerifyReplication.java:86) 
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:146) 
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:787) 

I checked master patch where there is no such bug