The column family is a required field for the sink. You should have an
error in the log explaining that (unless you are running a very old Flume
version or something).
You need something like this:

agent.sinks.hbaseSink.columnFamily=cf

Regards,
Gonzalo

On 30 September 2015 at 09:21, Tinte garcia, Miguel Angel <
miguel.tinte@atos.net> wrote:

> Hi Gonzalo,
>
> Thanks for the answer. My flume agent configuration is the following:
>
> agent.sources=avroSource
>
> agent.channels=channel1
>
> agent.sinks=hbaseSink
>
>
>
> agent.sources.avroSource.type=avro
>
> agent.sources.avroSource.channels=channel1
>
> agent.sources.avroSource.bind=0.0.0.0
>
> agent.sources.avroSource.port=61621
>
> agent.sources.avroSource.interceptors=i1
>
> agent.sources.avroSource.interceptors.i1.type=timestamp
>
> #agent.sources.avroSource.interceptors.i1.payloadColumn=
>
>
>
> agent.channels.channel1.type=memory
>
> agent.channels.channel1.capacity=1000000
>
> agent.channels.channel1.transactionCapacity=100000
>
> #agent.channels.channel1.byteCapacityBufferPercentage=20
>
> agent.channels.channel1.byteCapacity=134217728
>
>
>
> agent.sinks.hbaseSink.type=hbase
>
> agent.sinks.hbaseSink.channel=channel1
>
> agent.sinks.hbaseSink.channel.capacity=1000000
>
> agent.sinks.hbaseSink.channel.transactionCapacity=100000
>
> agent.sinks.hbaseSink.table=Test_Simulations_Data
>
>
>
>
>
> PayloadColumn is commented. Should I uncomment it and fill with any
> specific value?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> *From:* Gonzalo Herreros [mailto:gherreros@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2015 9:56 AM
> *To:* user@flume.apache.org
> *Subject:* Re: No columns to insert for #1 item
>
>
>
> My guess is that the HBase serializer is not filling the payload column
> correctly. i.e. an empty value in the property "payloadColumn"
>
> Can you share the sink configuration?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
>
> On 29 September 2015 at 23:40, Tinte garcia, Miguel Angel <
> miguel.tinte@atos.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying write data into HBase sending it through Flume agents, but
> some error appears in the during transaction:
>
>
>
> 2015-09-30 00:34:55,745 (SinkRunner-PollingRunner-DefaultSinkProcessor)
> [ERROR - org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.HBaseSink.process(HBaseSink.java:353)]
> Failed to commit transaction.Transaction rolled back.
>
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No columns to insert for #1 item
>
>         at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AsyncProcess.submitAll(AsyncProcess.java:468)
>
>         at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.processBatchCallback(HConnectionManager.java:2332)
>
>         at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.batchCallback(HTable.java:842)
>
>         at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.batchCallback(HTable.java:857)
>
>         at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.batch(HTable.java:832)
>
>         at org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.HBaseSink$3.run(HBaseSink.java:386)
>
>         at org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.HBaseSink$3.run(HBaseSink.java:374)
>
>         at
> org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.HBaseSink.runPrivileged(HBaseSink.java:427)
>
>         at
> org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.HBaseSink.putEventsAndCommit(HBaseSink.java:374)
>
>         at
> org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.HBaseSink.process(HBaseSink.java:344)
>
>         at
> org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkProcessor.process(DefaultSinkProcessor.java:68)
>
>         at
> org.apache.flume.SinkRunner$PollingRunner.run(SinkRunner.java:147)
>
>
>
> Does anybody know what it could be caused for?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
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