Trying to get that simple-cli example running on my local machine. It compiles fine however even though all looks correct on hbase-site.xml, it throws the following errors;
2015-07-02 13:46:19,184 ERROR [main] hbase1_1.BigtableConnection: Error loading BigtableOptions from Configuration.
java.io.IOException: Error getting access token from metadata server at: http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/token
at com.google.cloud.bigtable.config.CredentialFactory.getCredentialFromMetadataServiceAccount(CredentialFactory.java:100)
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Caused by: java.io.IOException: ComputeEngineCredentials cannot find the metadata server. This is likely because code is not running on Google Compute Engine.
at com.google.auth.oauth2.ComputeEngineCredentials.refreshAccessToken(ComputeEngineCredentials.java:63)
This means that we can't access to hbase from our local?
you can set environment variables on the system level as outlined for the following question so that eclipse gets the env variables;