Hi all, I've been trying to apply this patch to Cassandra but ran into some errors. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1497
The comments said it's fixed for version 0.7.1. But I can't directly apply it to this version. So I apply it manually to the java files in hadoop package. Compiling was successful. But then when executing the hadoop_streaming_input I encountered a runtime error: 11/05/06 17:27:21 WARN conf.Configuration: mapred.job.tracker is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.jobtracker.address packageJobJar: [./bin/../../../interface/avro/cassandra.avpr, ./bin/mapper.py, ./bin/reducer.py, /tmp/hadoop-radfactory/hadoop-unjar8363580286439315517/] [] /tmp/streamjob4200946905356051819.jar tmpDir=null 11/05/06 17:27:23 INFO mapreduce.JobSubmitter: Cleaning up the staging area hdfs://client1:9001/tmp/hadoop-root/mapred/staging/radfactory/.staging/job_201105051628_0015 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InstantiationError: org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobContext at org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.AbstractColumnFamilyInputFormat.getSplits(AbstractColumnFamilyInputFormat.java:138) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.writeOldSplits(JobSubmitter.java:428) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.writeSplits(JobSubmitter.java:420) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.submitJobInternal(JobSubmitter.java:338) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.submit(Job.java:960) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJob(JobClient.java:534) at org.apache.hadoop.streaming.StreamJob.submitAndMonitorJob(StreamJob.java:924) at org.apache.hadoop.streaming.StreamJob.run(StreamJob.java:123) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:69) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:83) at org.apache.hadoop.streaming.HadoopStreaming.main(HadoopStreaming.java:50) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:192) Any ideas? Thanks, Danny