[SPARK-7357] Improving HBaseTest example

Author: Jihong MA <linlin200605@gmail.com>

Closes #5904 from JihongMA/SPARK-7357 and squashes the following commits:

7d6153a [Jihong MA] SPARK-7357 Improving HBaseTest example

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/HBaseTest.scala b/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/HBaseTest.scala
index f4684b42b5..849887d23c 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/HBaseTest.scala
+++ b/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/HBaseTest.scala
@@ -28,7 +28,19 @@ object HBaseTest {
   def main(args: Array[String]) {
     val sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("HBaseTest")
     val sc = new SparkContext(sparkConf)
+
+    // please ensure HBASE_CONF_DIR is on classpath of spark driver
+    // e.g: set it through spark.driver.extraClassPath property
+    // in spark-defaults.conf or through --driver-class-path
+    // command line option of spark-submit
+
     val conf = HBaseConfiguration.create()
+
+    if (args.length < 1) {
+      System.err.println("Usage: HBaseTest <table_name>")
+      System.exit(1)
+    }
+
     // Other options for configuring scan behavior are available. More information available at
     // http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableInputFormat.html
     conf.set(TableInputFormat.INPUT_TABLE, args(0))