[HADOOP-7350] Use ServiceLoader to discover compression codec classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: conf, io
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Thomas White
• Created: 01/Jun/11 23:58
• Updated: 23/May/12 20:15
• Resolved: 19/Apr/12 19:30

Description

By using a ServiceLoader users wouldn't have to add codec classes to io.compression.codecs for codecs that aren't shipped with Hadoop (e.g. LZO), since they would be automatically picked up from the classpath.