hey all, i'v successfully fixed this problem, i was missing the cassandra jars, so you actually need to build cassandra (ant) and then you need to jar it (ant jar) and only then it'll work
BTW if you have hue installed, remove it first! On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Shai Harel <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks for the help, i'v tried to be conservative and i'm using pig 0.8 & > cassandra 0.8 > and still getting this error > > Pig Stack Trace > --------------- > ERROR 2998: Unhandled internal error. Could not initialize class > org.apache.cassandra.thrift.SliceRange > > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class > org.apache.cassandra.thrift.SliceRange > > at org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.pig.CassandraStorage.setLocation(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.JobControlCompiler.getJob(JobControlCompiler.java:369) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.JobControlCompiler.compile(JobControlCompiler.java:256) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher.launchPig(MapReduceLauncher.java:147) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine.execute(HExecutionEngine.java:378) > at > org.apache.pig.PigServer.executeCompiledLogicalPlan(PigServer.java:1198) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.storeEx(PigServer.java:874) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.store(PigServer.java:816) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.openIterator(PigServer.java:728) > at > org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.processDump(GruntParser.java:612) > at > org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:303) > at > org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:165) > at > org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:141) > at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.run(Grunt.java:76) > at org.apache.pig.Main.run(Main.java:465) > at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:107) > > does anyone else have this problem? > > > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jeremy Hanna > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Try following this and see if it helps getting started: >> https://github.com/jeromatron/pygmalion/wiki/Getting-Started >> >> I haven't tried it with 0.9 yet but I plan to this week. We use the >> CassandraStorage jar in production. If you can, validate your data with >> Cassandra's schema validators. CassandraStorage gets the schema from >> Cassandra and tries to unmarshal the data into Pig data types with the >> schema information. >> >> See if that helps. >> >> On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Shai Harel wrote: >> >> > hey all, i'v been trying to query cassandra using my pig script, >> > so i used the contrib jar from cassandra. and i'm getting the following >> > error... >> > some thrift failure err.... :| >> > >> > ERROR 2998: Unhandled internal error. >> > org.apache.thrift.meta_data.FieldValueMetaData.<init>(BZ)V >> > >> > java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: >> > org.apache.thrift.meta_data.FieldValueMetaData.<init>(BZ)V >> > at >> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.SliceRange.<clinit>(SliceRange.java:149) >> > at >> org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.pig.CassandraStorage.setLocation(Unknown >> > Source) >> > at >> > >> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.JobControlCompiler.getJob(JobControlCompiler.java:369) >> > at >> > >> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.JobControlCompiler.compile(JobControlCompiler.java:256) >> > at >> > >> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher.launchPig(MapReduceLauncher.java:147) >> > at >> > >> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine.execute(HExecutionEngine.java:378) >> > at >> > org.apache.pig.PigServer.executeCompiledLogicalPlan(PigServer.java:1198) >> > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.storeEx(PigServer.java:874) >> > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.store(PigServer.java:816) >> > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.openIterator(PigServer.java:728) >> > at >> > org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.processDump(GruntParser.java:612) >> > at >> > >> org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:303) >> > at >> > >> org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:165) >> > at >> > >> org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:141) >> > at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.run(Grunt.java:76) >> > at org.apache.pig.Main.run(Main.java:465) >> > at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:107) >> > >> > >> > does anyone managed to get this up and running? >> > i'm considering to rewrite the CassandraStorage.jar using Hector, >> > Any thoughts about that? >> >> >
