Ivan Sobolev created CASSANDRA-4780: ---------------------------------------
Summary: Not informative error reporting when calling getNaturalEndpoints for a CF without key_validation_class Key: CASSANDRA-4780 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4780 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Affects Versions: 1.1.5 Reporter: Ivan Sobolev Priority: Minor While trying to call getNaturalEndpoints(String,String,String) via jmx, got the following: {code}Problem invoking getNaturalEndpoints: java.rmi.UnmarshalException: Error unmarshaling return; nested exception is: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException (no security manager: RMI class loader disabled){code} Googling suggested to try out different classpath mysteries[1] Doing that from the nodetool was a bit more informative though: {code}Exception in thread "main" org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: cannot parse '28589689-0bf0-9ebf-e405-d8f1d798cd7d' as hex bytes at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType.fromString(BytesType.java:74) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.getNaturalEndpoints(StorageService.java:2131) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.StandardMBeanIntrospector.invokeM2(StandardMBeanIntrospector.java:93) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.StandardMBeanIntrospector.invokeM2(StandardMBeanIntrospector.java:27) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MBeanIntrospector.invokeM(MBeanIntrospector.java:208) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.PerInterface.invoke(PerInterface.java:120) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MBeanSupport.invoke(MBeanSupport.java:262) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:836) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:761) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1427) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.access$200(RMIConnectionImpl.java:72) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$PrivilegedOperation.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1265) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doPrivilegedOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1360) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:788) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor26.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:303) at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:159) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:155) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:535) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:790) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:649) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: Non-hex characters in 28589689-0bf0-9ebf-e405-d8f1d798cd7d at org.apache.cassandra.utils.Hex.hexToBytes(Hex.java:60) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType.fromString(BytesType.java:70) {code} {code} update column family xxx with key_validation_class=UTF8Type;{code} Goals of the ticket: * Ensure that message from exception will properly pop up to the JMX client * Guys googling the same problem will have a direction ___________________________________________________________ [1] forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?25937-RMI-class-loader-disabled -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira