Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/119#discussion_r10536660
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala ---
@@ -130,6 +130,18 @@ class SparkContext(
val isLocal = (master == "local" || master.startsWith("local["))
+ // Create a classLoader for use by the driver so that jars added via
addJar are available to the
+ // driver. Do this before all other initialization so that any thread
pools created for this
+ // SparkContext uses the class loader.
+ // In the future it might make sense to expose this to users so they can
assign it as the
+ // context class loader for other threads.
+ // Note that this is config-enabled as classloaders can introduce subtle
side effects
+ private[spark] val classLoader = if
(conf.getBoolean("spark.driver.loadAddedJars", false)) {
+ val loader = new SparkURLClassLoader(Array.empty[URL],
this.getClass.getClassLoader)
--- End diff --
Great catch - this is definitely something that needs to change.
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