[PHOENIX-1612] Phoenix can't be used from an external jar in SQL tools

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.3.0
• Assignee: Gabriel Reid
• Reporter: Gabriel Reid
• Created: 28/Jan/15 19:27
• Updated: 21/Nov/15 02:15
• Resolved: 29/Jan/15 15:41

Description

This is a regression to some of the behavior that was resolved in PHOENIX-966 and a few others. If the phoenix-client jar is not in the lib directory of tools like SquirrelSQL and DBVisualizer, then it's not possible to connect to Phoenix with those tools.

This current regression is due to a static HColumnDescriptor in ConnectionQueryServicesImpl. Initializing an HColumnDescriptor executes HBaseConfiguration.create, which then fails due to the hbase-defaults check (because the Phoenix-bundled hbase-default.xml isn't found via the context classloader).