[HADOOP-9737] JarFinder#getJar should delete the jar file upon destruction of the JVM

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: util
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• Reporter: Esteban Gutierrez
• Created: 16/Jul/13 07:55
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:33
• Resolved: 08/May/15 23:08

Description

Once JarFinder.getJar() is invoked by a client app, it would be really useful to destroy the generated JAR after the JVM is destroyed by setting tempJar.deleteOnExit(). In order to preserve backwards compatibility a configuration setting could be implemented, e.g. test.build.dir.purge.on.exit