[RANGER-314] Remove custom class loader used by ranger admin for resource lookup

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Assignee: Dilli Arumugam
• Reporter: Dilli Arumugam
• Created: 15/Mar/15 01:43
• Updated: 19/Mar/15 17:27
• Resolved: 19/Mar/15 17:27

Description

Remove custom class loader used by ranger admin for resource lookup

Right now ranger admin resource lookup for hdfs, hive and hbase are relying custom classloader org.apache.ranger.plugin.client.HadoopClassLoader. This requires us to define property name to site file (e.g. core-site.xml) mapping in resourcenamemap.properties.

We should try to eliminate the need for the custom class loader and the need to maintain property name to site file mapping to make it easy to onboard new plugins.

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