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Steve Loughran commented on MAPREDUCE-3965:
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no, groovy triggers it for the same reason -user error.
Propose
# a check in {{findContainingJar}} to handle a null class
# if found, an IllegalArgumentException is raised -including the classname at
fault
# a test that tries to set the class of a job to {{java.lang.Class}} and
expects the relevant error
> JobConf.findContainingJar NPEs if it can't find the classloader of a class
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-3965
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3965
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Environment: Setting up a job under Groovy, OSX10.7, job started by
> ant's <java> with fork==true
> Reporter: Steve Loughran
> Priority: Minor
>
> I never knew that classes may not have classloaders, but it turns out they
> can -in which case Object.getClass().getClassLoader() will be null "This
> method will return null in such implementations if this class was loaded by
> the bootstrap class loader.""
> When this (rare) situation arises, {{JobConf.findContainingJar()}} NPEs, when
> failing with a slightly more useful error message would be preferred.
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