[NIFI-6884] Class loader isolation not working properly with native libraries

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.0
• Component/s: Core Framework
• Assignee: Tamas Palfy
• Reporter: Tamas Palfy
• Created: 19/Nov/19 14:37
• Updated: 21/Sep/20 16:16
• Resolved: 13/Jan/20 19:02

Description

Loading native libraries has issues:

• NAR-INF/bundled-dependencies/native is not scanned by InstanceClassLoader
• Same library with same full path cannot be loaded
• Cannot define additional scan target locations via property in processors/services
• Chooses first found library, even if incompatible with current OS

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: NIFI-5184 Nifi JMS Controller Disable/Enable causes Classloader Issues with Native Libs
• is duplicated by: NIFI-6817 When there are multiple PutHDFS with snappy compression, will throw java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError
• is related to: NIFI-7825 Support native library loading via absolute path
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3894