Use of unknown sink type leads to NullPointerException
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Key: FLUME-863
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-863
Project: Flume
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Jarek Jarcec Cecho
Priority: Minor
I for example used type "file" and I got following error message:
2011-11-25 04:34:15,354 (conf-file-poller-0) [DEBUG -
org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkFactory.create(DefaultSinkFactory.java:72)]
Creating instance of sink file
2011-11-25 04:34:15,357 (conf-file-poller-0) [ERROR -
org.apache.flume.conf.file.AbstractFileConfigurationProvider$FileWatcherRunnable.run(AbstractFileConfigurationProvider.java:205)]
Failed to load configuration data. Exception follows.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.flume.conf.properties.PropertiesFileConfigurationProvider.loadSinks(PropertiesFileConfigurationProvider.java:269)
at
org.apache.flume.conf.properties.PropertiesFileConfigurationProvider.load(PropertiesFileConfigurationProvider.java:186)
at
org.apache.flume.conf.file.AbstractFileConfigurationProvider.doLoad(AbstractFileConfigurationProvider.java:124)
at
org.apache.flume.conf.file.AbstractFileConfigurationProvider.access$300(AbstractFileConfigurationProvider.java:38)
at
org.apache.flume.conf.file.AbstractFileConfigurationProvider$FileWatcherRunnable.run(AbstractFileConfigurationProvider.java:203)
at
java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150)
at
java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98)
at
java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
at
java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:204)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
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