Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseConfiguration

Question

I am using Hadoop 1.0.3 and HBase 0.94.22. I am trying to run a mapper program to read values from a Hbase table and output them to a file. I am getting the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseConfiguration
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:340)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:149)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:372)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:360)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)

The code is as below

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter.FirstKeyOnlyFilter;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableMapReduceUtil;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableMapper;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;


    public class Test {

    static class TestMapper extends TableMapper<Text, IntWritable> {
        private static final IntWritable one = new IntWritable(1);

        public void map(ImmutableBytesWritable row, Result value, Context context) throws    IOException, InterruptedException
        {
            ImmutableBytesWritable userkey = new ImmutableBytesWritable(row.get(), 0 , Bytes.SIZEOF_INT);
            String key =Bytes.toString(userkey.get());
            context.write(new Text(key), one);

        }
    }


    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        HBaseConfiguration conf = new HBaseConfiguration();
        Job job = new Job(conf, "hbase_freqcounter");
        job.setJarByClass(Test.class);
        Scan scan = new Scan();

        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[0]));
        String columns = "data";
        scan.addFamily(Bytes.toBytes(columns));
        scan.setFilter(new FirstKeyOnlyFilter());
        TableMapReduceUtil.initTableMapperJob("test",scan, TestMapper.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class, job);
        job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
        job.setOutputValueClass(IntWritable.class);
        System.exit(job.waitForCompletion(true)?0:1);

    }

}

I get the above code exported to a jar file and on the command line I use the below command to run the above code.

hadoop jar /home/testdb.jar test

where test is the folder to which the mapper results should be written.

I have checked a few other links like Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException where it has been suggested to include the zookeeper file in the classpath, but while creating the project in eclipse I have already included zookeeper file from the lib directory of hbase. The file I have included is zookeeper-3.4.5.jar. Ans also visited this link too HBase - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError in java , but I am using a mapper class to get the values from the hbase table not any client API. I know I am making a mistake somewhere, guys could you please help me out ??

I have noted another strange thing, when I remove all of the code in the main function except the first line " HBaseConfiguration conf = new HBaseConfiguration();", then export the code to a jar file and try to compile the jar file as hadoop jar test.jar I still get the same error. It seems either I am defining the conf variable incorrectly or there is some issue with my environment.

Answer 1

I got the fix to the problem, I had not added the hbase classpath in the hadoop-env.sh file. Below is the one I added to make the job work.

$ export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$HBASE_HOME/hbase-0.94.22.jar:\
    $HBASE_HOME/hbase-0.94.22-test.jar:\
    $HBASE_HOME/conf:\
    ${HBASE_HOME}/lib/zookeeper-3.4.5.jar:\
    ${HBASE_HOME}/lib/protobuf-java-2.4.0a.jar:\
    ${HBASE_HOME}/lib/guava-11.0.2.jar

Answer 2

I tried editing the hadoop-env.sh file, but the changes mentioned here didn't work for me.

What worked is this:

export HADOOP_CLASSPATH="$HADOOP_CLASSPATH:$HBASE_HOME/lib/*"

I just added that at the end of my hadoop-env.sh. Do not forget to set your HBASE_HOME variable. You can also replace the $HBASE_HOME with the actual path of your hbase installation.