[HADOOP-14225] Remove xmlenc dependency

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha4
• Target Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha4
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Release Note: xmlenc dependency has been removed. If you rely on the transitive dependency, you need to set the dependency explicitly in your code after this change.
• Assignee: Christopher Douglas
• Reporter: Christopher Douglas
• Created: 23/Mar/17 21:02
• Updated: 17/Apr/17 15:43
• Resolved: 10/Apr/17 18:49

Description

The xmlenc library is used only in the following two classes:

o.a.h.fs.MD5MD5CRC32FileChecksum
o.a.h.hdfs.server.namenode.DfsServlet

Given that Hadoop already includes other fast XML encoders as dependencies, we can lose this one.