Github user ctubbsii commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/236#discussion_r108553471
--- Diff:
start/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/start/classloader/AccumuloClassLoader.java
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@@ -44,21 +44,21 @@
public class AccumuloClassLoader {
- public static final String CLASSPATH_PROPERTY_NAME =
"general.classpaths";
+ public static final String GENERAL_CLASSPATHS = "general.classpaths";
public static final String MAVEN_PROJECT_BASEDIR_PROPERTY_NAME =
"general.maven.project.basedir";
public static final String DEFAULT_MAVEN_PROJECT_BASEDIR_VALUE = "";
- private static String SITE_CONF;
+ private static URL accumuloConfigUrl;
private static URLClassLoader classloader;
private static final Logger log =
LoggerFactory.getLogger(AccumuloClassLoader.class);
static {
- String configFile =
System.getProperty("org.apache.accumulo.config.file", "accumulo-site.xml");
- if (System.getenv("ACCUMULO_CONF_DIR") != null) {
- // accumulo conf dir should be set
- SITE_CONF = System.getenv("ACCUMULO_CONF_DIR") + "/" + configFile;
+ String configFilename =
System.getProperty("org.apache.accumulo.config.file", "accumulo-site.xml");
+ accumuloConfigUrl =
AccumuloClassLoader.class.getClassLoader().getResource(configFilename);
+ if (accumuloConfigUrl == null) {
+ log.warn("Failed to load Accumulo configuration '{}' from
classpath", configFilename);
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@mikewalch It sounds like you're suggesting that the only reason to offer
both is because a user might have poor configuration management practices,
resulting in unexpected configuration changes. For such a user, one could say
that the contents of the file at the given absolute path are just as likely to
change unexpectedly.
As long as the file URI scheme works correctly, I won't veto it or
anything. But, I do think the argument in favor of it is somewhat weak. I also
have some concerns that it might set a bad precedent. By supporting both, are
we setting ourselves up to ensure that we support both mechanisms for all
future configs, (metrics, client configs, etc.), for consistency?
It's unfortunate that log4j doesn't ship its configuration loading strategy
as a separate component that we could reuse. If they did, we could just use
that for all configuration file loading, and get consistency across the board
with minimal code to maintain.
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