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+/**
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.RegionException;
+
+/**
+ * Gets or Scans throw this exception if running without in-row scan flag
+ * set and row size appears to exceed max configured size (configurable via
+ * hbase.table.max.rowsize).
+ */
+@InterfaceAudience.Public
+public class RowTooBigException extends RegionException {
+
+  public RowTooBigException(String message) {
+    super(message);
+  }
+}