That's because the object is not set in the constructor. You can access
Configuration after setConf() is called. So defer your work in the constructor
to this method.
public void setConf(Configuration conf) {
this.conf = conf;
}
-----Original message-----
> From:Sourajit Basak <[email protected]>
> Sent: Fri 16-Nov-2012 11:28
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: custom plugin's constructor unable to access hadoop conf
>
> In my custom HtmlParseFilter plugin, I am getting a NPE on trying to access
> the hadoop Configuration object in the plugin constructor. Is this a known
> behavior ?
>
