Connecting to remote HBase service using Java

Question

I have a small sample code in which I try to establish a connection to a remote HBase entity. The code runs on a windows machine without HBase installed and I try to connect to a remote Ubuntu Server that has it installed and running. The IP in the below snippet is of course just a placeholder.

The code is as follows:

public static void main(String[] args) {

    Configuration conf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
    HBaseAdmin admin = null;

    String ip = "10.10.10.10";
    String port = "2181";

    conf.set("hbase.zookeeper.quorum", ip);
    conf.set("hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort", port);

    try {
        admin = new HBaseAdmin(conf);
        boolean bool = admin.tableExists("sensor_data");
        System.out.println("Table exists? " + bool);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

But for some reason I get this error:

org.apache.hadoop.hbase.DoNotRetryIOException: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method com.google.common.base.Stopwatch.<init>()V from class org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.MetaTableLocator
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller.translateException(RpcRetryingCaller.java:229)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller.callWithoutRetries(RpcRetryingCaller.java:202)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientScanner.call(ClientScanner.java:320)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientScanner.nextScanner(ClientScanner.java:295)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientScanner.initializeScannerInConstruction(ClientScanner.java:160)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientScanner.<init>(ClientScanner.java:155)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.getScanner(HTable.java:811)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MetaTableAccessor.fullScan(MetaTableAccessor.java:602)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MetaTableAccessor.tableExists(MetaTableAccessor.java:366)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HBaseAdmin.tableExists(HBaseAdmin.java:303)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HBaseAdmin.tableExists(HBaseAdmin.java:313)
at com.twoBM.Tests.HBaseWriter.main(HBaseWriter.java:26)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:147)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method com.google.common.base.Stopwatch.<init>()V from class org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.MetaTableLocator
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.MetaTableLocator.blockUntilAvailable(MetaTableLocator.java:596)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.MetaTableLocator.blockUntilAvailable(MetaTableLocator.java:580)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.MetaTableLocator.blockUntilAvailable(MetaTableLocator.java:559)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ZooKeeperRegistry.getMetaRegionLocation(ZooKeeperRegistry.java:61)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateMeta(ConnectionManager.java:1185)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegion(ConnectionManager.java:1152)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCallerWithReadReplicas.getRegionLocations(RpcRetryingCallerWithReadReplicas.java:300)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ScannerCallableWithReplicas.call(ScannerCallableWithReplicas.java:153)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ScannerCallableWithReplicas.call(ScannerCallableWithReplicas.java:61)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller.callWithoutRetries(RpcRetryingCaller.java:200)
... 15 more

I am using Gradle to build my project and currently I am only using the two following dependencies:

compile 'org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc:2.1.0'
compile 'org.apache.hbase:hbase:1.1.6'

Does anyone know to fix this problem? I have tried googling this problem, but without any of the found links providing an actual solution.

Best regards

Answer 1

This is definitely Google Guava's dependency conflict. The default constructor of Stopwatch class became private since Guava v.17 and marked deprecated even earlier.

So to HBase Java client works properly you need Guava v.16 or earlier. Check the way you build your application (Maven/Gradle/Classpath) and find the dependency which uses Guava v.17+. After that, you can resolve the conflict.