HADOOP-14067. VersionInfo should load version-info.properties from its own classloader. Contributed by Thejas M Nair.

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ThreadUtil.java

@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ public class ThreadUtil {
    * Convenience method that returns a resource as inputstream from the
    * classpath.
    * <p>
-   * It first attempts to use the Thread's context classloader and if not
+   * Uses the Thread's context classloader to load resource.
-   * set it uses the class' classloader.
    *
    * @param resourceName resource to retrieve.
    *
@@ -68,6 +67,27 @@ public class ThreadUtil {
       throw new IOException("Can not read resource file '" + resourceName +
           "' because class loader of the current thread is null");
     }
+    return getResourceAsStream(cl, resourceName);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Convenience method that returns a resource as inputstream from the
+   * classpath using given classloader.
+   * <p>
+   *
+   * @param cl ClassLoader to be used to retrieve resource.
+   * @param resourceName resource to retrieve.
+   *
+   * @throws IOException thrown if resource cannot be loaded
+   * @return inputstream with the resource.
+   */
+  public static InputStream getResourceAsStream(ClassLoader cl,
+        String resourceName)
+        throws IOException {
+    if (cl == null) {
+      throw new IOException("Can not read resource file '" + resourceName +
+          "' because given class loader is null");
+    }
     InputStream is = cl.getResourceAsStream(resourceName);
     if (is == null) {
       throw new IOException("Can not read resource file '" +
@@ -75,4 +95,6 @@ public class ThreadUtil {
     }
     return is;
   }
+
+
 }

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/VersionInfo.java

@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ public class VersionInfo {
     String versionInfoFile = component + "-version-info.properties";
     InputStream is = null;
     try {
-      is = ThreadUtil.getResourceAsStream(versionInfoFile);
+      is = ThreadUtil.getResourceAsStream(VersionInfo.class.getClassLoader(),
+          versionInfoFile);
       info.load(is);
     } catch (IOException ex) {
       LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass()).warn("Could not read '" +