This may beg the question ... 
Why do you not know the CF?

Your table schemas only consist of tables and CFs. So you should know them at 
the start of your job or m/r Mapper.setup();


On Jul 9, 2012, at 7:25 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When we try to add a value to a CF which does not exist on a table, we
> are getting the error below. I think this is not really giving the
> right information about the issue.
> 
> Should it not be better to provide an exception like
> UnknownColumnFamillyException?
> 
> JM
> 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RetriesExhaustedWithDetailsException:
> Failed 1 action: DoNotRetryIOException: 1 time, servers with issues:
> phenom:60020,
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.processBatchCallback(HConnectionManager.java:1591)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.processBatch(HConnectionManager.java:1367)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.flushCommits(HTable.java:945)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.doPut(HTable.java:801)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.put(HTable.java:776)
>       at org.myapp.app.Integrator.main(Integrator.java:162)
> 

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