Hi Flink Community, Recently I implemented a new metrics reporter to report Flink runtime metrics to a Kafka topic. After building the project, I move my reporter jar file from my build folder to the plugin folder:
COPY build/flink-diagnostics-message-reporter-${VERSION}.jar ${FLINK_HOME}/plugins/flink-diagnostics-message-reporter/flink-diagnostics-message-reporter.jar But then I see lots of ClassNotFoundException when I tried to start a test job with this new metrics reporter. Looks like the problem is that the metrics reporter plugin can not get access to some of the jars in the /opt/flink/lib folder. By reading this document: https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-master/docs/deployment/filesystems/plugins/, looks like there is a whitelist to define what packages can be accessed by the plugins. Is there any way to config this whitelist so that the plugin jar can get accessed to classes in this folder? If this can't work, are there other solutions for this problem like changing the classpath for the plugin? Plugins | Apache Flink<https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-master/docs/deployment/filesystems/plugins/> Plugins # Plugins facilitate a strict separation of code through restricted classloaders. Plugins cannot access classes from other plugins or from Flink that have not been specifically whitelisted. This strict isolation allows plugins to contain conflicting versions of the same library without the need to relocate classes or to converge to common versions. nightlies.apache.org Best, Fan