HBase Tap reports misleading error 'table is missing'

[kianwilcox]

When there is a configuration issue or ZK isn't running, the error message being reported is that the table does not exist. In the case below, the table does exist - it just doesn't know that because it hasn't connected to zookeeper.

2012-07-25 17:40:20,588 WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child: Error running child
java.lang.RuntimeException: TABLENAME does not exist !
at com.twitter.maple.hbase.HBaseTap.sinkConfInit(Unknown Source)
at com.twitter.maple.hbase.HBaseTap.sinkConfInit(Unknown Source)
at com.twitter.maple.hbase.HBaseTapCollector.initialize(Unknown Source)
at com.twitter.maple.hbase.HBaseTapCollector.prepare(Unknown Source)
at com.twitter.maple.hbase.HBaseTap.openForWrite(Unknown Source)
at com.twitter.maple.hbase.HBaseTap.openForWrite(Unknown Source)
at cascading.flow.stream.SinkStage.prepare(SinkStage.java:60)
at cascading.flow.stream.StreamGraph.prepare(StreamGraph.java:165)
at cascading.flow.hadoop.FlowMapper.run(FlowMapper.java:107)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:391)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:325)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:270)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1157)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:264)