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Jason Gustafson resolved KAFKA-6467.
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    Resolution: Fixed
      Reviewer: Jason Gustafson  (was: Ewen Cheslack-Postava)

> Enforce layout of dependencies within a Connect plugin to be deterministic
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>
>                 Key: KAFKA-6467
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6467
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: KafkaConnect
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.0, 0.11.0.2
>            Reporter: Konstantine Karantasis
>            Assignee: Konstantine Karantasis
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 1.0.1, 0.11.0.3
>
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> In principle, Connect plugins that intend to load their dependencies in 
> isolation should not contain any conflicts among the classes they package as 
> dependencies. In other words, the order in which a plugin's dependencies are 
> laid out and passed to its plugin class loader should not matter.
> However, in practice, there are rare and suboptimal situations where a plugin 
> needs to bundle a few packages with conflicting dependencies because it 
> doesn't control packaging of third-party modules. In those cases depending on 
> a deterministic ordering within the class loader's path can help the Connect 
> plugin enforce loading of the desired classes as needed. (For example, see 
> [HDFS connector with MapR 
> libs|https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-connect-hdfs/issues/270] or [HDFS 
> connector with Hive's extended 
> jar|https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-connect-hdfs/issues/261])
> To achieve such ordering, this improvement suggests ordering a plugin's 
> dependencies in a nested directory structure by sorting such paths 
> alphanumerically. This way the deterministic order is implicit (no extra 
> configuration is required) and a specific dependency can be put earlier or 
> later in the class loader's path with appropriate naming of its package path 
> (e.g. within the plugin's directory).



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