It happened in latest branch 0.90. but I can't reproduce it.
It seems using api getHRegionInfoOrNull is better or check the input parameter
before call getHRegionInfo.
Code:
public static Writable getWritable(final byte [] bytes, final Writable w)
throws IOException {
return getWritable(bytes, 0, bytes.length, w);
}
return getWritable(bytes, 0, bytes.length, w); // It seems input parameter
bytes is null
logs:
11/07/15 10:15:42 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Socket connection established to
C4C3.site/157.5.100.3:2181, initiating session
11/07/15 10:15:42 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Session establishment complete on
server C4C3.site/157.5.100.3:2181, sessionid = 0x2312b8e3f700002, negotiated
timeout = 180000
[INFO] Create : ufdr111 222!
[INFO] Create : ufdr111 start!
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Writables.getWritable(Writables.java:75)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Writables.getHRegionInfo(Writables.java:119)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HBaseAdmin$1.processRow(HBaseAdmin.java:306)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner.metaScan(MetaScanner.java:190)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner.metaScan(MetaScanner.java:95)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner.metaScan(MetaScanner.java:73)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HBaseAdmin.createTable(HBaseAdmin.java:325)
at createTable.main(createTable.java:96)