[HADOOP-3074] URLStreamHandler for the DFS

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Component/s: util
• Assignee: Christophe Taton
• Reporter: Christophe Taton
• Created: 22/Mar/08 10:04
• Updated: 22/Aug/08 19:50
• Resolved: 15/Apr/08 06:26

Description

This issue aims at providing a handler to resolve DFS URLs ("hdfs://host:port/file/to/path"), so that such URLs can be read using the URL API (mainly InputStream url.openStream()).

This allows the use of a URLClassLoader which would serve classes directly from the DFS.