[SPARK-8962] Disallow Class.forName

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Project Infra
• Assignee: Josh Rosen
• Reporter: Josh Rosen
• Created: 09/Jul/15 21:47
• Updated: 27/Jul/15 07:49
• Resolved: 14/Jul/15 23:08

Description

We should add a regex rule to Scalastyle which prohibits the use of Class.forName. We should not use Class.forName directly because this will load classes from the system's default class loader rather than the appropriate context loader. Instead, we should be calling Utils.classForName instead.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SPARK-9339 Use of Class.forName(String) should be replaced with version taking classloader
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7350 (JoshRosen)