Doing an insert with an unknown family throws a NPE in HRS ----------------------------------------------------------
Key: HBASE-833 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-833 Project: Hadoop HBase Issue Type: Bug Components: regionserver Affects Versions: 0.2.0 Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans Assignee: Jean-Daniel Cryans Priority: Trivial Fix For: 0.2.1, 0.3.0 When I added the validation of value's length, I did not check if the family existed. Throws an ugly: {code} 08/08/15 14:15:55 DEBUG client.HConnectionManager$TableServers: reloading table servers because: java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.validateValuesLength(HRegionServer.java:1161) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.batchUpdate(HRegionServer.java:1136) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HbaseRPC$Server.call(HbaseRPC.java:473) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:896) {code} with some retries. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.