SpecificDatumReader should allow users to specify the ClassLoader used.
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Key: AVRO-873
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-873
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: java
Reporter: Michael Armbrust
Right now SpecificData resolves classes for SpecificRecords by calling
Class.forName(), which uses the ClassLoader used to load the SpecificData
class. I believe this makes it impossible to deserialize into SpecificRecords
that are loaded using a different ClassLoader.
One relatively simple way to fix this limitations involves:
* Adding a constructor to SpecificData that allows the user to specify a
ClassLoader.
* Changing the current protected constructor of SpecificDatumReader that takes
a SpecificData to be public instead of protected.
* Changing SpecificDatumReader to actually use the SpecificData that is passed
into the constructor.
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