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Abhishek Kumar updated HBASE-14525: ----------------------------------- Summary: Append and increment operation throws NullPointerException when appending on non-existing column families. (was: Append operation throws NullPointerException when appending on non-existing column families.) > Append and increment operation throws NullPointerException when appending on > non-existing column families. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-14525 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14525 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Components: shell > Reporter: Abhishek Kumar > Assignee: Abhishek Kumar > Priority: Minor > > When performing append operation on non-existing column families, > NullPointerException is thrown in hbase shell as shown below: > {noformat} > hbase(main):007:0> append 't1', 'r1', 'none:c1', '123' > ERROR: java.io.IOException > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcServer.call(RpcServer.java:2175) > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.CallRunner.run(CallRunner.java:106) > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcExecutor.consumerLoop(RpcExecutor.java:130) > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcExecutor$1.run(RpcExecutor.java:107) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.doGet(HRegion.java:6987) > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.append(HRegion.java:7048) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.RSRpcServices.append(RSRpcServices.java:580) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.RSRpcServices.mutate(RSRpcServices.java:2206) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf.generated.ClientProtos$ClientService$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientProtos.java:32452) > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcServer.call(RpcServer.java:2133) > ... 4 more > {noformat} > This seems to be caused by absence of check for valid family names as done in > other operations like 'Put' in HRegion.java -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)