public static void deleteTable( String tableId, boolean insertDeletes, Credentials credentials, ZooLock lock) throws AccumuloException, IOException { Scanner ms = new ScannerImpl( HdfsZooInstance.getInstance(), credentials, MetadataTable.ID, Authorizations.EMPTY); Text tableIdText = new Text(tableId); BatchWriter bw = new BatchWriterImpl( HdfsZooInstance.getInstance(), credentials, MetadataTable.ID, new BatchWriterConfig() .setMaxMemory(1000000) .setMaxLatency(120000l, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) .setMaxWriteThreads(2)); // scan metadata for our table and delete everything we find Mutation m = null; ms.setRange(new KeyExtent(tableIdText, null, null).toMetadataRange()); // insert deletes before deleting data from metadata... this makes the code fault tolerant if (insertDeletes) { ms.fetchColumnFamily(DataFileColumnFamily.NAME); TabletsSection.ServerColumnFamily.DIRECTORY_COLUMN.fetch(ms); for (Entry<Key, Value> cell : ms) { Key key = cell.getKey(); if (key.getColumnFamily().equals(DataFileColumnFamily.NAME)) { FileRef ref = new FileRef(VolumeManagerImpl.get(), key); bw.addMutation(createDeleteMutation(tableId, ref.meta().toString())); } if (TabletsSection.ServerColumnFamily.DIRECTORY_COLUMN.hasColumns(key)) { bw.addMutation(createDeleteMutation(tableId, cell.getValue().toString())); } } bw.flush(); ms.clearColumns(); } for (Entry<Key, Value> cell : ms) { Key key = cell.getKey(); if (m == null) { m = new Mutation(key.getRow()); if (lock != null) putLockID(lock, m); } if (key.getRow().compareTo(m.getRow(), 0, m.getRow().length) != 0) { bw.addMutation(m); m = new Mutation(key.getRow()); if (lock != null) putLockID(lock, m); } m.putDelete(key.getColumnFamily(), key.getColumnQualifier()); } if (m != null) bw.addMutation(m); bw.close(); }