package org.apache.cassandra.triggers;
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FilenameFilter;
import java.io.IOError;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.google.common.io.Files;

Custom class loader will load the classes from the class path, CCL will load the classes from the the URL first, if it cannot find the required class it will let the parent class loader do the its job. Note: If the CCL is GC'ed then the associated classes will be unloaded.
/** * Custom class loader will load the classes from the class path, CCL will load * the classes from the the URL first, if it cannot find the required class it * will let the parent class loader do the its job. * * Note: If the CCL is GC'ed then the associated classes will be unloaded. */
public class CustomClassLoader extends URLClassLoader { private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CustomClassLoader.class); private final Map<String, Class<?>> cache = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, Class<?>>(); private final ClassLoader parent; public CustomClassLoader(ClassLoader parent) { super(new URL[] {}, parent); assert parent != null; this.parent = getParent(); } public CustomClassLoader(ClassLoader parent, File classPathDir) { super(new URL[] {}, parent); assert parent != null; this.parent = getParent(); addClassPath(classPathDir); } public void addClassPath(File dir) { if (dir == null || !dir.exists()) return; FilenameFilter filter = new FilenameFilter() { public boolean accept(File dir, String name) { return name.endsWith(".jar"); } }; for (File inputJar : dir.listFiles(filter)) { File lib = new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"), "lib"); if (!lib.exists()) { lib.mkdir(); lib.deleteOnExit(); } try { File out = File.createTempFile("cassandra-", ".jar", lib); out.deleteOnExit(); logger.info("Loading new jar {}", inputJar.getAbsolutePath()); Files.copy(inputJar, out); addURL(out.toURI().toURL()); } catch (IOException ex) { throw new IOError(ex); } } } @Override public Class<?> loadClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException { Class<?> clazz = cache.get(name); if (clazz == null) return loadClassInternal(name); return clazz; } public synchronized Class<?> loadClassInternal(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException { try { return parent.loadClass(name); } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) { logger.trace("Class not found using parent class loader,", ex); // Don't throw the exception here, try triggers directory. } Class<?> clazz = this.findClass(name); cache.put(name, clazz); return clazz; } }