Not able to create HBASE table -java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor.addFamily

Hi,

I have tried executing java code to create HBASE table ,but I am receiving noSuchMethodError

Steps I followed:

export HBASE_HOME=/usr/hdp/current/hbase-client/
export HADOOP_CLASSPATH="$HADOOP_CLASSPATH:$HBASE_HOME/lib/*"
hadoop jar learnhbase.jar  learnhbase.Cretab

Source code (exported as jar from my eclipse and uploaded into HDFS)

package learnhbase;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HColumnDescriptor;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HBaseAdmin;

public class Cretab {

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

		Configuration conf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
		HTableDescriptor htable = new HTableDescriptor("cherry123");
		htable.addFamily(new HColumnDescriptor("Id"));
		htable.addFamily(new HColumnDescriptor("Name"));
		System.out.println("Connecting...");
		HBaseAdmin hbase_admin = new HBaseAdmin(conf);
		System.out.println("Creating Table...");
		hbase_admin.createTable(htable);
		System.out.println("Done!");
		hbase_admin.close();

	}
}

Error :

WARNING: Use "yarn jar" to launch YARN applications.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor.addFamily(Lorg/apache/hadoop/hbase/HColumnD
escriptor;)V
        at learnhbase.Cretab.main(Cretab.java:17)
        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:497)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)

Hi Charan,

I think this is because of versions mismatch. We should use the same version of HBase for both compiling and running jar

Solutions specified here will help you

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