[HBASE-833] Doing an insert with an unknown family throws a NPE in HRS

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.1, 0.18.0
• Component/s: regionserver
• Assignee: Jean-Daniel Cryans
• Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans
• Created: 15/Aug/08 18:36
• Updated: 13/Sep/08 23:22
• Resolved: 15/Aug/08 19:03

Description

When I added the validation of value's length, I did not check if the family existed. Throws an ugly:

08/08/15 14:15:55 DEBUG client.HConnectionManager$TableServers: reloading table servers because: java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.validateValuesLength(HRegionServer.java:1161)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.batchUpdate(HRegionServer.java:1136)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HbaseRPC$Server.call(HbaseRPC.java:473)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:896)

with some retries.