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Doug Cutting updated AVRO-1103:
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Attachment: AVRO-1103.patch
Improved patch that gets classloader from configuration like other serializers.
> New AvroDeserializer should Locate Appropriate Classloader
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> Key: AVRO-1103
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1103
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.7.0
> Environment: Hadoop 0.23.1 with Avro jars replaced by 1.7 jars
> Specific data classes assembled into JAR with mapper/reducer
> Reporter: Jacob Metcalf
> Assignee: Doug Cutting
> Fix For: 1.7.1
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> Attachments: AVRO-1103.patch, AVRO-1103.patch
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> Continuing on from AVRO-873 I believe some more work needs to be done to get
> the MapReduce 2 APIs in Avro 1.7 working with Hadoop 0.23. Since it revolves
> around classloaders it is complex to present a unit test which fails so I
> will explain the problem:
> - By default SpecificDatumReader will use the classloader it was loaded from
> to find a Specific class to deserialize into.
> - In earlier versions of Hadoop e.g. 0.20.2 Avro was not included so
> typically you would bundle Avro into your job jar along with the Specific
> classes so they would be on the same classpath.
>
> - However later versions of Hadoop such as 0.23 ship with Avro. Thus you find
> that the SpecificData.class.getClassloader() is typically a parent loader
> which just contains Hadoop components.
> - Thus when SpecificData goes to construct a Specific class from the schema
> it cannot locate it and silently defaults to creating a GenericData.
> In AVRO-873 an additional constructor was added to SpecificData to force it
> to use a different classloader. Thus to extend this fix to the new MR2 APIs:
> - AvroDeserializer could attempt to instantiate the class using
> Class.forName() and from this get the appropriate Classloader and pass this
> into the constructor of SpecificDatumReader.
> - Line 2771 of SpecificData.java is:
> bq. Class c = SpecificData.get().getClass(schema);
> - This would need to be changed to:
> bq. Class c = this.getClass(schema);
> I have raised this in the mail groups here:
> http://search-hadoop.com/m/wVUf1aLCwd/classloader/v=threaded so apologies if
> this is already being thought about.
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