The problem is checked exceptions - translating throwables into "generic" IOExceptions. There are some specific exception classes in hbase, but the problem is with all those unknown and random exceptions. Eg: NPEs.
As for this issue, some kind of regression looks like. -ryan On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Cosmin Lehene <cleh...@adobe.com> wrote: > I've noticed there are more places where exceptions tend to be eaten, or > transformed in a generic IOException. Working around this tends to obscure > logic sometimes. More, most of the classes seem to both catch and throw > IOException as a "standard". Perhaps working a bit towards having a richer > set of IOException subclasses would make sense. Anyone thought of that? > > Cosmin > On Apr 23, 2010, at 3:50 AM, Stack wrote: > >> HBASE-2481 "Client is not getting UnknownScannerExceptions; they are >> being eaten" sinks this release candidate. Will fix and put up a new >> candidate this evening. >> St.Ack >> >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: >>> I've posted an hbase 0.20.4 release candidate 2 here: >>> >>> http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.20.4-candidate-2/ >>> >>> Should we release this candidate as hbase 0.20.4? >>> >>> In includes some critical fixes and some performance enhancements (See >>> CHANGES.txt or the release notes in the docs [1] for the list of over >>> 100 issues addressed by this candidate). >>> >>> Please take it for a test spin if you have a chance. Vote closes >>> Tuesday, the 27th of April. >>> >>> Yours, >>> The HBase Team >>> >>> 1. >>> http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.20.4-candidate-2/hbase-0.20.4/docs/releasenotes.html >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: >>>> I've posted an hbase 0.20.4 release candidate here: >>>> >>>> http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.20.4-candidate-1/ >>>> >>>> Should we release this candidate as hbase 0.20.4? >>>> >>>> In includes some critical fixes and some performance enhancements (See >>>> CHANGES.txt or http://su.pr/4QEGFv for the list of over 100 issues >>>> addressed by this candidate). >>>> >>>> Please take it for a test spin if you have a chance. Vote closes >>>> Sunday, the 24th of April. >>>> >>>> Yours, >>>> The HBase Team >>>> >>> > >
