Github user ramkrish86 commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2332#discussion_r74551046
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flink-streaming-connectors/flink-connector-hbase/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/hbase/HBaseClient.java
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+package org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.hbase;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Connection;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Mutation;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Table;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.Closeable;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * A client class that serves to create connection and send data to HBase.
+ */
+class HBaseClient implements Closeable {
+
+ private static final Logger LOG =
LoggerFactory.getLogger(HBaseClient.class);
+
+ private Connection connection;
+ private Table table;
+
+ public HBaseClient(org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration hbConfig,
String tableName) throws IOException {
+ connection = ConnectionFactory.createConnection(hbConfig);
+ table = connection.getTable(TableName.valueOf(tableName));
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Have you tested when there is no table available with that name? May be you
need to have connect() API like in CassandraSink so that if that fails then
there is no point in continuing with others and gives you a clear API
specifically for connecting.
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