GitHub user xoltar opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/638
For outputformats that are Configurable, call setConf before sending data to them. This allows us to use, e.g. HBase's TableOutputFormat with PairRDDFunctions.saveAsNewAPIHadoopFile, which otherwise would throw NullPointerException because the output table name hasn't been configured. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/xoltar/incubator-spark SPARK-1108 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/638.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #638 ---- commit 7cbcaa10bbf01cf04bba7f2883d1fb9564cd3660 Author: Bryn Keller <bryn.kel...@intel.com> Date: 2014-02-20T06:00:44Z For outputformats that are Configurable, call setConf before sending data to them. This allows us to use, e.g. HBase TableOutputFormat, which otherwise would throw NullPointerException because the output table name hasn't been configured ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. To do so, please top-post your response. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---