Hiroshi Ikeda created HADOOP-10304: -------------------------------------- Summary: Configuration should not expose its instance in constructors Key: HADOOP-10304 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10304 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Hiroshi Ikeda Priority: Minor
org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration exposes a reference of its instance in constructors via its class variable REGISTRY, which means incomplete instances are accessible. For example addDefaultResource() may access incomplete instances (especially for subclasses of Configuration). Actually, static methods in Configuration are not needed to access its instances, and it is enough that each instance checks modification of class variables. This is also useful to avoid deadlock between locking instances and locking the class object, which may be happened when you will resolve race conditions yet existing in Configuration. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)