[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-4467) SerializationFactory should use current context ClassLoader

["Chris K Wensel (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Chris K Wensel commented on HADOOP-4467:
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I probably should have phrased this one differently, but it does seem to be standard practice to provide the context classloader when calling Class.forName.

I can submit a patch with the one line change. but I do not know if there should (or even could be) an accompanying unit test for this. please advise.

> SerializationFactory should use current context ClassLoader
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4467
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4467
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.18.1
>            Reporter: Chris K Wensel
>
> SerializationFactory#add calls Class.forName without a ClassLoader instance. This prevents user-space Serialization classes from being loaded.
> The resulting ClassNotFoundException is eaten after being logged, and a NPE is thrown further down the line when a Serializer is requested.

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