It's possible that the shell itself doesn't have it on its class path. The output of the classpath command is probably the classpath of the tabletserver you've connected to, not the current local shell process.
Try `export CLASSPATH=path/to/MyFormatter.jar; bin/accumulo shell ...` On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 6:01 PM mhd wrk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes the jar is on all the tservers and I tried `config`command and > `formatter` commands as alternatives. > Unfortunately no luck yet. > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:30 PM Michael Wall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Couple of thoughts >> >> 1 - Are you putting the jar on all the tservers and restarting everthing? >> 2 - Have you tried setting the formatter on the table as opposed to the scan >> command. Something like >> 'config -t mytable -s table.formatter=com.example.MyFormatter' >> >> Mike >> >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:50 PM mhd wrk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to use a custom formatter with scan command in Accumulo shell, >>> but seems that scan simply ignores the custom formatter and uses the >>> default one! >>> >>> The steps I follow are: >>> >>> 1- Create custom Formatter by extending >>> org.apache.accumulo.core.util.format.Formatter >>> >>> 2- Copy the jar to ${ACCUMULO_HOME}/lib >>> >>> 3- Restart Accumulo to make sure everything is reloaded. >>> >>> 4- run `accumulo shell` >>> >>> 5- run `classpath` and confirm that the formatter jar is included in the >>> path. >>> >>> 5- `scan -f 50 -fm com.example.MyFormatter -st -t mytable` >>> >>> >>> Accumulo version: 1.7.2 >>> >>> >>> Any known issues? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Mohammad >>> >>> >>>
