[HBASE-9251] list_namespace_tables seems to fail

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.95.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.96.0
• Assignee: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Reporter: Devaraj Das
• Created: 16/Aug/13 18:10
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 11:52
• Resolved: 18/Aug/13 17:55

Description

I was trying the RC0 of 0.95.2. and was on the shell trying to list tables in a namespace. I tried listing tables in the 'hbase' namespace and in a namespace I created. The listing fails:

hbase(main):008:0> list_namespace_tables 'hbase'
TABLE

ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RetriesExhaustedException: Failed after attempts=7, exceptions:
Fri Aug 16 17:47:17 UTC 2013, org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller@2313b44d, org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RemoteWithExtrasException(java.io.IOException): java.io.IOException: Illegal character <58> at 5. User-space table qualifiers can only contain 'alphanumeric characters': i.e. [a-zA-Z_0-9-.]: hbase:meta
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcServer.call(RpcServer.java:2194)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcServer$Handler.run(RpcServer.java:1861)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character <58> at 5. User-space table qualifiers can only contain 'alphanumeric characters': i.e. [a-zA-Z_0-9-.]: hbase:meta
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName.isLegalTableQualifierName(TableName.java:155)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName.isLegalTableQualifierName(TableName.java:125)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName.finishValueOf(TableName.java:249)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName.valueOf(TableName.java:242)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.listTableNamesByNamespace(HMaster.java:3130)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.listTableNamesByNamespace(HMaster.java:3063)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf.generated.MasterAdminProtos$MasterAdminService$2.callBlockingMethod(MasterAdminProtos.java:27764)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcServer.call(RpcServer.java:2156)
        ... 1 more