From 553d5db35565ce5c7bb7f08dfb35ed9422b6bafb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guanghao Zhang <zghao@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 18:31:32 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] HBASE-15616 (addendum) Allow null qualifier for all table
 operations

---
 .../main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AsyncTableBase.java | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AsyncTableBase.java b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AsyncTableBase.java
index 73ebebb5b50..3c551dfc54d 100644
--- a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AsyncTableBase.java
+++ b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AsyncTableBase.java
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ public interface AsyncTableBase {
       long amount, Durability durability) {
     Preconditions.checkNotNull(row, "row is null");
     Preconditions.checkNotNull(family, "family is null");
-    Preconditions.checkNotNull(qualifier, "qualifier is null");
     return increment(
       new Increment(row).addColumn(family, qualifier, amount).setDurability(durability))
           .thenApply(r -> Bytes.toLong(r.getValue(family, qualifier)));