/** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.hadoop.io; import java.util.HashMap; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience; import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability; import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration; /** Utility to permit renaming of Writable implementation classes without * invalidiating files that contain their class name. */ @InterfaceAudience.Private @InterfaceStability.Evolving public class WritableName { private static HashMap<String, Class<?>> NAME_TO_CLASS = new HashMap<String, Class<?>>(); private static HashMap<Class<?>, String> CLASS_TO_NAME = new HashMap<Class<?>, String>(); static { // define important types WritableName.setName(NullWritable.class, "null"); WritableName.setName(LongWritable.class, "long"); WritableName.setName(UTF8.class, "UTF8"); WritableName.setName(MD5Hash.class, "MD5Hash"); } private WritableName() {} // no public ctor /** Set the name that a class should be known as to something other than the * class name. */ public static synchronized void setName(Class writableClass, String name) { CLASS_TO_NAME.put(writableClass, name); NAME_TO_CLASS.put(name, writableClass); } /** Add an alternate name for a class. */ public static synchronized void addName(Class writableClass, String name) { NAME_TO_CLASS.put(name, writableClass); } /** Return the name for a class. Default is {@link Class#getName()}. */ public static synchronized String getName(Class writableClass) { String name = CLASS_TO_NAME.get(writableClass); if (name != null) return name; return writableClass.getName(); } /** Return the class for a name. Default is {@link Class#forName(String)}.*/ public static synchronized Class<?> getClass(String name, Configuration conf ) throws IOException { Class<?> writableClass = NAME_TO_CLASS.get(name); if (writableClass != null) return writableClass.asSubclass(Writable.class); try { return conf.getClassByName(name); } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { IOException newE = new IOException("WritableName can't load class: " + name); newE.initCause(e); throw newE; } } }