Setting external class loader (useful for OSGI environment)

[zdanek]

Currently there is only simple way to access classloader

Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()

In OSGI env this simply does not work :(

Same as
https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JACKSON-350

[cowtowncoder]

I don't use OSGi myself (so am unlikely to know how to fix; or be able to easily test the fix) so I am open to contributions here.

[zdanek]

Currently I'm fighting with Jackson se/deserialization in Distributed OSGI. Maybe I will be able to propose some code fixes as soon I will manage to make it all work.
Thanks for response,
Bartek

[cowtowncoder]

@zdanek Yes I would be interested in improvements to make Jackson work better on OSGi. We have solved some other issues (related to use of Maven shade plug-in for YAML dataformat module f.ex), so I hope we can resolve class loading problems as well.

[cowtowncoder]

As per patch #854, it is now possible to construct TypeFactory that uses specified override ClassLoader for findClass() calls, and we made sure core Jackson pieces do resolution through TypeFactory and not old ClassUtil static method.

[zdanek]

Nice!

[larsp]

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