[jira] [Created] (DRILL-6063) Set correct ThreadContext ClassLoader before using Hadoop Configuration class in DrillClient

["Sorabh Hamirwasia (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Sorabh Hamirwasia created DRILL-6063:
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             Summary: Set correct ThreadContext ClassLoader before using Hadoop Configuration class in DrillClient
                 Key: DRILL-6063
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-6063
             Project: Apache Drill
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Client - Java
    Affects Versions: 1.11.0
            Reporter: Sorabh Hamirwasia
            Assignee: Sorabh Hamirwasia


Drill Client uses Hadoop Configuration class in security mechanism factories. Configuration class internally uses ThreadContext class loader to get the default resources for configurations. When Drill JDBC driver is used with 3rd party tool like Squirrel then it creates a class loader with all Drill Driver related dependencies. This class loader is used to instantiate an object of Driver class in a separate thread. But the thread context class loader has dependencies related to Squirrel only. As a result of this when Hadoop Configuration class tries to load the resources with default values it doesn't find them in class path.

If we specify hadoop dependencies in Squirrel's classpath instead of Driver dependencies class path then it will work since Thread Context class loader will have Hadoop libraries loaded too and will find the resources. But this is not good as it is tying up one Squirrel instance with one version of Hadoop which might not be true in all the cases like here when same Squirrel instance can be used to load multiple versions of Drill Driver having different hadoop version dependencies.

To deal with this issue a simple fix is to set the Thread Context class loader to be same as Drill Driver dependencies class loader before accessing Hadoop Configuration class in Drill Client and later restore it back.



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