[jira] [Resolved] (HBASE-3118) HBaseAdmin.createTable and modifyTable should have a family check

["Andrew Purtell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3118?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andrew Purtell resolved HBASE-3118.
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    Resolution: Fixed

We sanity check descriptors passed in for admin actions now.

> HBaseAdmin.createTable and modifyTable should have a family check
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>                 Key: HBASE-3118
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3118
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.6
>         Environment: 0.20.6, Linux, Java 1.6+
>            Reporter: Vaibhav Puranik
>
> Currently HBaseAdmin.modifyTable does not check whether any family is supplied or not. I can execute this method without supplying any families and that puts the table in inconsistent state.
> In my opinion, modifyTable should let you modifyTable without overwriting. But looks like it doesn't do that. This can be very dangerous as you can end up overwriting a table in production and loose data. But if we are going to keep the behavior then at least some checks should be added to make it safer.



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