[jira] [Commented] (ZOOKEEPER-723) ephemeral parent znodes

["Ryan Shelley (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ryan Shelley commented on ZOOKEEPER-723:
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Just my two cents, but maybe you can solve this with Multi. You can only create ephemeral parent znodes through the multi interface. That way it gives you time to make the parent node and associate a child to it before it would be garbage collected.
                
> ephemeral parent znodes
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>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-723
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-723
>             Project: ZooKeeper
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: server
>            Reporter: Benjamin Reed
>            Assignee: Daniel Gómez Ferro
>         Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-723.patch, ZOOKEEPER-723.patch
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> ephemeral znodes have the nice property of automatically cleaning up after themselves when the creator goes away, but since they can't have children it is hard to build subtrees that will cleanup after the clients that are using them are gone.
> rather than changing the semantics of ephemeral nodes, i propose ephemeral parents: znodes that disappear when they have no more children. this cleanup would happen automatically when the last child is removed. an ephemeral parent is not tied to any particular session, so even if the creator goes away, the ephemeral parent will remain as long as there are children.
> the when an ephemeral parent is created it will have an initial child, so that it doesn't get immediately removed. i think this child should be an ephemeral znode with a predefined name, "firstChild".

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