Coping the jar into the lib or lib/ext seems to be fine. Because if I
remove the jar and try the same scan command then I get
Formatter class could not be loaded.
> com.example.MyFormatter
Regardless I tried your CLASSPATH suggestion and got the following:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.apache.accumulo.core.util.format.Formatter
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:30 PM Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
> It's possible that the shell itself doesn't have it on its class path.
> The output of the classpath command is probably the classpath of the
> tabletserver you've connected to, not the current local shell process.
>
> Try `export CLASSPATH=path/to/MyFormatter.jar; bin/accumulo shell ...`
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 6:01 PM mhd wrk <mhdwrkoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes the jar is on all the tservers and I tried `config`command and
> `formatter` commands as alternatives.
> > Unfortunately no luck yet.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:30 PM Michael Wall <mjw...@apache.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Couple of thoughts
> >>
> >> 1 - Are you putting the jar on all the tservers and restarting
> everthing?
> >> 2 - Have you tried setting the formatter on the table as opposed to the
> scan command. Something like
> >> 'config -t mytable -s table.formatter=com.example.MyFormatter'
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:50 PM mhd wrk <mhdwrkoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to use a custom formatter with scan command in Accumulo
> shell, but seems that scan simply ignores the custom formatter and uses the
> default one!
> >>>
> >>> The steps I follow are:
> >>>
> >>> 1- Create custom Formatter by extending
> org.apache.accumulo.core.util.format.Formatter
> >>>
> >>> 2- Copy the jar to ${ACCUMULO_HOME}/lib
> >>>
> >>> 3- Restart Accumulo to make sure everything is reloaded.
> >>>
> >>> 4- run `accumulo shell`
> >>>
> >>> 5- run `classpath` and confirm that the formatter jar is included in
> the path.
> >>>
> >>> 5- `scan -f 50 -fm com.example.MyFormatter -st -t mytable`
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Accumulo version: 1.7.2
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Any known issues?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Mohammad
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
