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Installing a new connector to Sqoop2

If you are contributing or adding a new connector say sqoop-foo-connector to the sqoop2, here are steps to follow.

Step 1: Create a sqoop-foo-connector.jar. Make sure the jar contains the sqoopconnector.properties for it to be picked up by sqoop

A typical sqoopconnector.properties for a sqoop2 connector looks like below

# Generic JDBC Connector Properties
org.apache.sqoop.connector.class = org.apache.sqoop.connector.foo.FooConnector
org.apache.sqoop.connector.name = sqoop-foo-connector

Step 2: Add this jar to the a folder on your installation machine and update the path to this folder in the sqoop.properties located under the server/conf directory under the Sqoop2  for the key 

org.apache.sqoop.connector.external.loadpath

// todo : VB

#
# External connectors load path
# "/path/to/external/connectors/": Add all the connector JARs in the specified folder
#
org.apache.sqoop.connector.external.loadpath=/path/to/connector

Step 3: Start the server and while initalizing the server this jar should be loaded into the sqoop's class path and registered into the sqoop repository/ 

Starting/Stopping Sqoop2 server

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