HBASE-891 HRS.validateValuesLength throws IOE, gets caught in the retries

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hbase/trunk@698008 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

CHANGES.txt

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Release 0.19.0 - Unreleased
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
   BUG FIXES
+   HBASE-891   HRS.validateValuesLength throws IOE, gets caught in the retries
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-890   Alter table operation and also related changes in REST interface

src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ValueOverMaxLengthException.java

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright 2008 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *
+ * 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;
+
+/**
+ * Thrown when a value is longer than the specified LENGTH
+ */
+@SuppressWarnings("serial")
+public class ValueOverMaxLengthException extends DoNotRetryIOException {
+  
+  /**
+   * default constructor
+   */
+  public ValueOverMaxLengthException() {
+    super();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @param message
+   */
+  public ValueOverMaxLengthException(String message) {
+    super(message);
+  }
+
+}

src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionServer.java

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.RegionHistorian;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.RemoteExceptionHandler;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.UnknownScannerException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.UnknownRowLockException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ValueOverMaxLengthException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Leases.LeaseStillHeldException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter.RowFilterInterface;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.BatchOperation;
@@ -1134,7 +1135,7 @@ public class HRegionServer implements HConstants, HRegionInterface, Runnable {
         if (fam != null) {
           int maxLength = fam.getMaxValueLength();
           if (operation.getValue().length > maxLength) {
-            throw new IOException("Value in column "
+            throw new ValueOverMaxLengthException("Value in column "
                 + Bytes.toString(operation.getColumn()) + " is too long. "
                 + operation.getValue().length + " instead of " + maxLength);
           }