How to include hbase-site.xml in the classpath

Question

I am currently trying to get my HBase code to use the settings specified in my hbase-site.xml. It seems to use default settings instead of what is specified in the hbase-sit

Answer 1

If it's using the default regardless of what you put in your hbase-site.xml, it probably means it is being overriden by another file in your classpath. This is very possible because there is already a conf-site.xml in the hbase jar.

To fix this, edit your classpath to add the directory containing your hbase-site.xml at the end of the classpath to be sure nothing overrides it. Something like:

java -cp $CLASSPATH:/usr/lib/hbase/conf path.to.your.Mainclass

If it gets too obscure, I would advise running this from command line and not in Eclipse so you can be exactly sure of what you have in your classpath.

Hope that helps.