Jesse Anderson created HBASE-9708: ------------------------------------- Summary: Improve Snapshot Name Error Message Key: HBASE-9708 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9708 Project: HBase Issue Type: Bug Components: snapshots Affects Versions: 0.94.2 Reporter: Jesse Anderson Priority: Minor
The output for snapshots when you enter an invalid snapshot name talks about "User-space table names" instead of "Snapshot names". The error message should say "Snapshot names can only contain...". Here is an example of the output: {noformat} hbase(main):001:0> snapshot 'user', 'asdf asdf' ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character <32> at 4. User-space table names can only contain 'word characters': i.e. [a-zA-Z_0-9-.]: asdf asdf Here is some help for this command: Take a snapshot of specified table. Examples: hbase> snapshot 'sourceTable', 'snapshotName' {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)