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Aaron McCurry commented on BLUR-251:
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I think that if someone is going to add a new type into Blur that we can assume
that they are fairly technical. So I would take the approach that they can
place the jar file(s) somewhere in HDFS to reference. Also I don't we should
assume they only have a single jar file.
The best model to follow on this one is HBase's coprocessors, they even have a
classloader that we can use. So I would change the method sigs above to be a
single one. If you need a system level type I think we can have people install
it via the properties.
public void addCustomFieldTypeToTable(String tablename, String
fieldTypeClassName, String uriLocation);
Where the uriLocation can be a file (jar file) or a directory of files to be
accessed by the classloader. Since the name of the type is defined in code, we
really only need the classname of the type to be loaded.
Now to actually make it accessible in the system you will need to modify the
properties of the table and save back into zookeeper. Should probably do this
in the ClusterStatus object, make it so you can append new properties but not
change any existing. After that has happened, you need to call
TableContext.clear() on all the servers, this should probably be done via a
ZooKeeper watcher of some sort.
I can help point you to the locations of all the different components if you
have questions.
Aaron
> Create table level third party field types
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>
> Key: BLUR-251
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BLUR-251
> Project: Apache Blur
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Blur
> Affects Versions: 0.3.0, 0.2.1
> Reporter: Aaron McCurry
> Fix For: 0.3.0
>
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> Allow for dynamically adding new field types to a given table. Each type
> will have it's own class loader and will load the jar files from a location
> within the table's storage directory. When the type is created the jars
> files will be copied from their location into the table storage so that they
> can live with the table and are effectively immutable. This will require new
> methods in the Blur Thrift API.
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