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Change subject: WIP - load from classpath
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Patch Set 2:

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https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/#/c/1400/2/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/external/provider/ParserFactoryProvider.java
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asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/external/provider/ParserFactoryProvider.java:

Line 47:     private static final String RESOURCE = 
"META-INF/services/org.apache.asterix.external.api.IDataParserFactory";
> Should we make this RESOURCE as a directory? As I see from the later initFa
There are different approaches. The only restriction we have is, that we can 
only have of configuration file with a specific name per jar. 

Now we can either create a lot of jars for the individual classes or create a 
mechanism to cover several classes in one jar. I'm not sure if directories 
would work well as I don't know what URL.openStream() does for directories, but 
this is clearly a solvable problem. 

One option to handle multiple implementations for one interface in a single jar 
would be to 

a) have a single file per interface in the jar (.e.g 
o.a.a.e.a.IDataParserFactory) that contains a class name of an implementation 
on each line (e.g. o.a.a.e.p.f.DelimitedDataParserFactory) and to 

b) extend the interface to provide more information about the implementation 
(e.g. add a supportedFormats() method to IDataParserFactory).

That way we could keep the configuration files simple and allow for an 
arbitrary number of implementations of a arbitrary number of interfaces in a 
single jar.


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