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-<h1>ZooKeeper Programmer's Guide</h1>
-<h3>Developing Distributed Applications that use ZooKeeper</h3>
-<div id="front-matter">
-<div id="minitoc-area">
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#_introduction">Introduction</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#ch_zkDataModel">The ZooKeeper Data Model</a>
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_zkDataModel_znodes">ZNodes</a>
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_zkDataMode_watches">Watches</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#Data+Access">Data Access</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#Ephemeral+Nodes">Ephemeral Nodes</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#Sequence+Nodes+--+Unique+Naming">Sequence Nodes -- Unique Naming</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#Container+Nodes">Container Nodes</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#TTL+Nodes">TTL Nodes</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_timeInZk">Time in ZooKeeper</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_zkStatStructure">ZooKeeper Stat Structure</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#ch_zkSessions">ZooKeeper Sessions</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#ch_zkWatches">ZooKeeper Watches</a>
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_WatchSemantics">Semantics of Watches</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_WatchRemoval">Remove Watches</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_WatchGuarantees">What ZooKeeper Guarantees about Watches</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_WatchRememberThese">Things to Remember about Watches</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_ZooKeeperAccessControl">ZooKeeper access control using ACLs</a>
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_ACLPermissions">ACL Permissions</a>
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_BuiltinACLSchemes">Builtin ACL Schemes</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#ZooKeeper+C+client+API">ZooKeeper C client API</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_ZooKeeperPluggableAuthentication">Pluggable ZooKeeper authentication</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#ch_zkGuarantees">Consistency Guarantees</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#ch_bindings">Bindings</a>
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#Java+Binding">Java Binding</a>
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_java_client_configuration">Client Configuration Parameters</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#C+Binding">C Binding</a>
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#Installation">Installation</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#Building+Your+Own+C+Client">Building Your Own C Client</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#ch_guideToZkOperations">Building Blocks: A Guide to ZooKeeper Operations</a>
-<ul class="minitoc">
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_errorsZk">Handling Errors</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_connectingToZk">Connecting to ZooKeeper</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_readOps">Read Operations</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_writeOps">Write Operations</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_handlingWatches">Handling Watches</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#sc_miscOps">Miscelleaneous ZooKeeper Operations</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#ch_programStructureWithExample">Program Structure, with Simple Example</a>
-</li>
-<li>
-<a href="#ch_gotchas">Gotchas: Common Problems and Troubleshooting</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-
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-
-<a name="_introduction"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">Introduction</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>This document is a guide for developers wishing to create
- distributed applications that take advantage of ZooKeeper's coordination
- services. It contains conceptual and practical information.</p>
-<p>The first four sections of this guide present higher level
- discussions of various ZooKeeper concepts. These are necessary both for an
- understanding of how ZooKeeper works as well how to work with it. It does
- not contain source code, but it does assume a familiarity with the
- problems associated with distributed computing. The sections in this first
- group are:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<a href="#ch_zkDataModel">The ZooKeeper Data Model</a>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<a href="#ch_zkSessions">ZooKeeper Sessions</a>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<a href="#ch_zkWatches">ZooKeeper Watches</a>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<a href="#ch_zkGuarantees">Consistency Guarantees</a>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<p>The next four sections provide practical programming
- information. These are:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<a href="#ch_guideToZkOperations">Building Blocks: A Guide to ZooKeeper Operations</a>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<a href="#ch_bindings">Bindings</a>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<a href="#ch_programStructureWithExample">Program Structure, with Simple Example</a>
- <em>[tbd]</em>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<a href="#ch_gotchas">Gotchas: Common Problems and Troubleshooting</a>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<p>The book concludes with an <a href="#apx_linksToOtherInfo">appendix</a> containing links to other
- useful, ZooKeeper-related information.</p>
-<p>Most of information in this document is written to be accessible as
- stand-alone reference material. However, before starting your first
- ZooKeeper application, you should probably at least read the chaptes on
- the <a href="#ch_zkDataModel">ZooKeeper Data Model</a> and <a href="#ch_guideToZkOperations">ZooKeeper Basic Operations</a>. Also,
- the <a href="#ch_programStructureWithExample">Simple Programmming
- Example</a> <em>[tbd]</em> is helpful for understanding the basic
- structure of a ZooKeeper client application.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="ch_zkDataModel"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">The ZooKeeper Data Model</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>ZooKeeper has a hierarchal name space, much like a distributed file
- system. The only difference is that each node in the namespace can have
- data associated with it as well as children. It is like having a file
- system that allows a file to also be a directory. Paths to nodes are
- always expressed as canonical, absolute, slash-separated paths; there are
- no relative reference. Any unicode character can be used in a path subject
- to the following constraints:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>The null character (\u0000) cannot be part of a path name. (This
- causes problems with the C binding.)</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>The following characters can't be used because they don't
- display well, or render in confusing ways: \u0001 - \u001F and \u007F
- - \u009F.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>The following characters are not allowed: \ud800 - uF8FF,
- \uFFF0 - uFFFF.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>The "." character can be used as part of another name, but "."
- and ".." cannot alone be used to indicate a node along a path,
- because ZooKeeper doesn't use relative paths. The following would be
- invalid: "/a/b/./c" or "/a/b/../c".</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>The token "zookeeper" is reserved.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<a name="sc_zkDataModel_znodes"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">ZNodes</h3>
-<p>Every node in a ZooKeeper tree is referred to as a
- <em>znode</em>. Znodes maintain a stat structure that
- includes version numbers for data changes, acl changes. The stat
- structure also has timestamps. The version number, together with the
- timestamp, allows ZooKeeper to validate the cache and to coordinate
- updates. Each time a znode's data changes, the version number increases.
- For instance, whenever a client retrieves data, it also receives the
- version of the data. And when a client performs an update or a delete,
- it must supply the version of the data of the znode it is changing. If
- the version it supplies doesn't match the actual version of the data,
- the update will fail. (This behavior can be overridden. For more
- information see... )<em>[tbd...]</em>
-</p>
-<div class="note">
-<div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">
-
-<p>In distributed application engineering, the word
- <em>node</em> can refer to a generic host machine, a
- server, a member of an ensemble, a client process, etc. In the ZooKeeper
- documentation, <em>znodes</em> refer to the data nodes.
- <em>Servers</em> refer to machines that make up the
- ZooKeeper service; <em>quorum peers</em> refer to the
- servers that make up an ensemble; client refers to any host or process
- which uses a ZooKeeper service.</p>
-
-</div>
-</div>
-<p>Znodes are the main enitity that a programmer access. They have
- several characteristics that are worth mentioning here.</p>
-<a name="sc_zkDataMode_watches"></a>
-<h4>Watches</h4>
-<p>Clients can set watches on znodes. Changes to that znode trigger
- the watch and then clear the watch. When a watch triggers, ZooKeeper
- sends the client a notification. More information about watches can be
- found in the section
- <a href="#ch_zkWatches">ZooKeeper Watches</a>.</p>
-<a name="Data+Access"></a>
-<h4>Data Access</h4>
-<p>The data stored at each znode in a namespace is read and written
- atomically. Reads get all the data bytes associated with a znode and a
- write replaces all the data. Each node has an Access Control List
- (ACL) that restricts who can do what.</p>
-<p>ZooKeeper was not designed to be a general database or large
- object store. Instead, it manages coordination data. This data can
- come in the form of configuration, status information, rendezvous, etc.
- A common property of the various forms of coordination data is that
- they are relatively small: measured in kilobytes.
- The ZooKeeper client and the server implementations have sanity checks
- to ensure that znodes have less than 1M of data, but the data should
- be much less than that on average. Operating on relatively large data
- sizes will cause some operations to take much more time than others and
- will affect the latencies of some operations because of the extra time
- needed to move more data over the network and onto storage media. If
- large data storage is needed, the usually pattern of dealing with such
- data is to store it on a bulk storage system, such as NFS or HDFS, and
- store pointers to the storage locations in ZooKeeper.</p>
-<a name="Ephemeral+Nodes"></a>
-<h4>Ephemeral Nodes</h4>
-<p>ZooKeeper also has the notion of ephemeral nodes. These znodes
- exists as long as the session that created the znode is active. When
- the session ends the znode is deleted. Because of this behavior
- ephemeral znodes are not allowed to have children.</p>
-<a name="Sequence+Nodes+--+Unique+Naming"></a>
-<h4>Sequence Nodes -- Unique Naming</h4>
-<p>When creating a znode you can also request that
- ZooKeeper append a monotonically increasing counter to the end
- of path. This counter is unique to the parent znode. The
- counter has a format of %010d -- that is 10 digits with 0
- (zero) padding (the counter is formatted in this way to
- simplify sorting), i.e. "<path>0000000001". See
- <a href="recipes.html#sc_recipes_Queues">Queue
- Recipe</a> for an example use of this feature. Note: the
- counter used to store the next sequence number is a signed int
- (4bytes) maintained by the parent node, the counter will
- overflow when incremented beyond 2147483647 (resulting in a
- name "<path>-2147483648").</p>
-<a name="Container+Nodes"></a>
-<h4>Container Nodes</h4>
-<p>
-<strong>Added in 3.5.3</strong>
-</p>
-<p>ZooKeeper has the notion of container znodes. Container znodes are
- special purpose znodes useful for recipes such as leader, lock, etc.
- When the last child of a container is deleted, the container becomes
- a candidate to be deleted by the server at some point in the future.</p>
-<p>Given this property, you should be prepared to get
- KeeperException.NoNodeException when creating children inside of
- container znodes. i.e. when creating child znodes inside of container znodes
- always check for KeeperException.NoNodeException and recreate the container
- znode when it occurs.</p>
-<a name="TTL+Nodes"></a>
-<h4>TTL Nodes</h4>
-<p>
-<strong>Added in 3.5.3</strong>
-</p>
-<p>When creating PERSISTENT or PERSISTENT_SEQUENTIAL znodes,
- you can optionally set a TTL in milliseconds for the znode. If the znode
- is not modified within the TTL and has no children it will become a candidate
- to be deleted by the server at some point in the future.</p>
-<p>Note: TTL Nodes must be enabled via System property as
- they are disabled by default. See the <a href="zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_configuration">Administrator's
- Guide</a> for details. If you attempt to create TTL Nodes without the proper System property set the server
- will throw <em>KeeperException.UnimplementedException</em>.</p>
-<a name="sc_timeInZk"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Time in ZooKeeper</h3>
-<p>ZooKeeper tracks time multiple ways:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Zxid</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>Every change to the ZooKeeper state receives a stamp in the
- form of a <em>zxid</em> (ZooKeeper Transaction Id).
- This exposes the total ordering of all changes to ZooKeeper. Each
- change will have a unique zxid and if zxid1 is smaller than zxid2
- then zxid1 happened before zxid2.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Version numbers</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>Every change to a node will cause an increase to one of the
- version numbers of that node. The three version numbers are version
- (number of changes to the data of a znode), cversion (number of
- changes to the children of a znode), and aversion (number of changes
- to the ACL of a znode).</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Ticks</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>When using multi-server ZooKeeper, servers use ticks to define
- timing of events such as status uploads, session timeouts,
- connection timeouts between peers, etc. The tick time is only
- indirectly exposed through the minimum session timeout (2 times the
- tick time); if a client requests a session timeout less than the
- minimum session timeout, the server will tell the client that the
- session timeout is actually the minimum session timeout.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Real time</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>ZooKeeper doesn't use real time, or clock time, at all except
- to put timestamps into the stat structure on znode creation and
- znode modification.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<a name="sc_zkStatStructure"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">ZooKeeper Stat Structure</h3>
-<p>The Stat structure for each znode in ZooKeeper is made up of the
- following fields:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>czxid</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The zxid of the change that caused this znode to be
- created.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>mzxid</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The zxid of the change that last modified this znode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>pzxid</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The zxid of the change that last modified children of this znode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>ctime</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The time in milliseconds from epoch when this znode was
- created.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>mtime</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The time in milliseconds from epoch when this znode was last
- modified.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>version</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The number of changes to the data of this znode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>cversion</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The number of changes to the children of this znode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>aversion</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The number of changes to the ACL of this znode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>ephemeralOwner</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The session id of the owner of this znode if the znode is an
- ephemeral node. If it is not an ephemeral node, it will be
- zero.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>dataLength</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The length of the data field of this znode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>numChildren</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>The number of children of this znode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-</ul>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="ch_zkSessions"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">ZooKeeper Sessions</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>A ZooKeeper client establishes a session with the ZooKeeper
- service by creating a handle to the service using a language
- binding. Once created, the handle starts of in the CONNECTING state
- and the client library tries to connect to one of the servers that
- make up the ZooKeeper service at which point it switches to the
- CONNECTED state. During normal operation will be in one of these
- two states. If an unrecoverable error occurs, such as session
- expiration or authentication failure, or if the application explicitly
- closes the handle, the handle will move to the CLOSED state.
- The following figure shows the possible state transitions of a
- ZooKeeper client:</p>
-<img alt="" src="images/state_dia.jpg"><p>To create a client session the application code must provide
- a connection string containing a comma separated list of host:port pairs,
- each corresponding to a ZooKeeper server (e.g. "127.0.0.1:4545" or
- "127.0.0.1:3000,127.0.0.1:3001,127.0.0.1:3002"). The ZooKeeper
- client library will pick an arbitrary server and try to connect to
- it. If this connection fails, or if the client becomes
- disconnected from the server for any reason, the client will
- automatically try the next server in the list, until a connection
- is (re-)established.</p>
-<p>
-<strong>Added in 3.2.0</strong>: An
- optional "chroot" suffix may also be appended to the connection
- string. This will run the client commands while interpreting all
- paths relative to this root (similar to the unix chroot
- command). If used the example would look like:
- "127.0.0.1:4545/app/a" or
- "127.0.0.1:3000,127.0.0.1:3001,127.0.0.1:3002/app/a" where the
- client would be rooted at "/app/a" and all paths would be relative
- to this root - ie getting/setting/etc... "/foo/bar" would result
- in operations being run on "/app/a/foo/bar" (from the server
- perspective). This feature is particularly useful in multi-tenant
- environments where each user of a particular ZooKeeper service
- could be rooted differently. This makes re-use much simpler as
- each user can code his/her application as if it were rooted at
- "/", while actual location (say /app/a) could be determined at
- deployment time.</p>
-<p>When a client gets a handle to the ZooKeeper service,
- ZooKeeper creates a ZooKeeper session, represented as a 64-bit
- number, that it assigns to the client. If the client connects to a
- different ZooKeeper server, it will send the session id as a part
- of the connection handshake. As a security measure, the server
- creates a password for the session id that any ZooKeeper server
- can validate.The password is sent to the client with the session
- id when the client establishes the session. The client sends this
- password with the session id whenever it reestablishes the session
- with a new server.</p>
-<p>One of the parameters to the ZooKeeper client library call
- to create a ZooKeeper session is the session timeout in
- milliseconds. The client sends a requested timeout, the server
- responds with the timeout that it can give the client. The current
- implementation requires that the timeout be a minimum of 2 times
- the tickTime (as set in the server configuration) and a maximum of
- 20 times the tickTime. The ZooKeeper client API allows access to
- the negotiated timeout.</p>
-<p>When a client (session) becomes partitioned from the ZK
- serving cluster it will begin searching the list of servers that
- were specified during session creation. Eventually, when
- connectivity between the client and at least one of the servers is
- re-established, the session will either again transition to the
- "connected" state (if reconnected within the session timeout
- value) or it will transition to the "expired" state (if
- reconnected after the session timeout). It is not advisable to
- create a new session object (a new ZooKeeper.class or zookeeper
- handle in the c binding) for disconnection. The ZK client library
- will handle reconnect for you. In particular we have heuristics
- built into the client library to handle things like "herd effect",
- etc... Only create a new session when you are notified of session
- expiration (mandatory).</p>
-<p>Session expiration is managed by the ZooKeeper cluster
- itself, not by the client. When the ZK client establishes a
- session with the cluster it provides a "timeout" value detailed
- above. This value is used by the cluster to determine when the
- client's session expires. Expirations happens when the cluster
- does not hear from the client within the specified session timeout
- period (i.e. no heartbeat). At session expiration the cluster will
- delete any/all ephemeral nodes owned by that session and
- immediately notify any/all connected clients of the change (anyone
- watching those znodes). At this point the client of the expired
- session is still disconnected from the cluster, it will not be
- notified of the session expiration until/unless it is able to
- re-establish a connection to the cluster. The client will stay in
- disconnected state until the TCP connection is re-established with
- the cluster, at which point the watcher of the expired session
- will receive the "session expired" notification.</p>
-<p>Example state transitions for an expired session as seen by
- the expired session's watcher:</p>
-<ol>
-
-<li>
-<p>'connected' : session is established and client
- is communicating with cluster (client/server communication is
- operating properly)</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>.... client is partitioned from the
- cluster</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>'disconnected' : client has lost connectivity
- with the cluster</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>.... time elapses, after 'timeout' period the
- cluster expires the session, nothing is seen by client as it is
- disconnected from cluster</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>.... time elapses, the client regains network
- level connectivity with the cluster</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>'expired' : eventually the client reconnects to
- the cluster, it is then notified of the
- expiration</p>
-</li>
-
-</ol>
-<p>Another parameter to the ZooKeeper session establishment
- call is the default watcher. Watchers are notified when any state
- change occurs in the client. For example if the client loses
- connectivity to the server the client will be notified, or if the
- client's session expires, etc... This watcher should consider the
- initial state to be disconnected (i.e. before any state changes
- events are sent to the watcher by the client lib). In the case of
- a new connection, the first event sent to the watcher is typically
- the session connection event.</p>
-<p>The session is kept alive by requests sent by the client. If
- the session is idle for a period of time that would timeout the
- session, the client will send a PING request to keep the session
- alive. This PING request not only allows the ZooKeeper server to
- know that the client is still active, but it also allows the
- client to verify that its connection to the ZooKeeper server is
- still active. The timing of the PING is conservative enough to
- ensure reasonable time to detect a dead connection and reconnect
- to a new server.</p>
-<p>
- Once a connection to the server is successfully established
- (connected) there are basically two cases where the client lib generates
- connectionloss (the result code in c binding, exception in Java -- see
- the API documentation for binding specific details) when either a synchronous or
- asynchronous operation is performed and one of the following holds:
- </p>
-<ol>
-
-<li>
-<p>The application calls an operation on a session that is no
- longer alive/valid</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>The ZooKeeper client disconnects from a server when there
- are pending operations to that server, i.e., there is a pending asynchronous call.
- </p>
-</li>
-
-</ol>
-<p>
-<strong>Added in 3.2.0 -- SessionMovedException</strong>. There is an internal
- exception that is generally not seen by clients called the SessionMovedException.
- This exception occurs because a request was received on a connection for a session
- which has been reestablished on a different server. The normal cause of this error is
- a client that sends a request to a server, but the network packet gets delayed, so
- the client times out and connects to a new server. When the delayed packet arrives at
- the first server, the old server detects that the session has moved, and closes the
- client connection. Clients normally do not see this error since they do not read
- from those old connections. (Old connections are usually closed.) One situation in which this
- condition can be seen is when two clients try to reestablish the same connection using
- a saved session id and password. One of the clients will reestablish the connection
- and the second client will be disconnected (causing the pair to attempt to re-establish
- its connection/session indefinitely).</p>
-<p>
-<strong>Updating the list of servers</strong>. We allow a client to
- update the connection string by providing a new comma separated list of host:port pairs,
- each corresponding to a ZooKeeper server. The function invokes a probabilistic load-balancing
- algorithm which may cause the client to disconnect from its current host with the goal
- to achieve expected uniform number of connections per server in the new list.
- In case the current host to which the client is connected is not in the new list
- this call will always cause the connection to be dropped. Otherwise, the decision
- is based on whether the number of servers has increased or decreased and by how much.
- </p>
-<p>
- For example, if the previous connection string contained 3 hosts and now the list contains
- these 3 hosts and 2 more hosts, 40% of clients connected to each of the 3 hosts will
- move to one of the new hosts in order to balance the load. The algorithm will cause the client
- to drop its connection to the current host to which it is connected with probability 0.4 and in this
- case cause the client to connect to one of the 2 new hosts, chosen at random.
- </p>
-<p>
- Another example -- suppose we have 5 hosts and now update the list to remove 2 of the hosts,
- the clients connected to the 3 remaining hosts will stay connected, whereas all clients connected
- to the 2 removed hosts will need to move to one of the 3 hosts, chosen at random. If the connection
- is dropped, the client moves to a special mode where he chooses a new server to connect to using the
- probabilistic algorithm, and not just round robin.
- </p>
-<p>
- In the first example, each client decides to disconnect with probability 0.4 but once the decision is
- made, it will try to connect to a random new server and only if it cannot connect to any of the new
- servers will it try to connect to the old ones. After finding a server, or trying all servers in the
- new list and failing to connect, the client moves back to the normal mode of operation where it picks
- an arbitrary server from the connectString and attempt to connect to it. If that fails, is will continue
- trying different random servers in round robin. (see above the algorithm used to initially choose a server)
- </p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="ch_zkWatches"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">ZooKeeper Watches</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>All of the read operations in ZooKeeper - <strong>getData()</strong>, <strong>getChildren()</strong>, and <strong>exists()</strong> - have the option of setting a watch as a
- side effect. Here is ZooKeeper's definition of a watch: a watch event is
- one-time trigger, sent to the client that set the watch, which occurs when
- the data for which the watch was set changes. There are three key points
- to consider in this definition of a watch:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>One-time trigger</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>One watch event will be sent to the client when the data has changed.
- For example, if a client does a getData("/znode1", true) and later the
- data for /znode1 is changed or deleted, the client will get a watch
- event for /znode1. If /znode1 changes again, no watch event will be
- sent unless the client has done another read that sets a new
- watch.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Sent to the client</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>This implies that an event is on the way to the client, but may
- not reach the client before the successful return code to the change
- operation reaches the client that initiated the change. Watches are
- sent asynchronously to watchers. ZooKeeper provides an ordering
- guarantee: a client will never see a change for which it has set a
- watch until it first sees the watch event. Network delays or other
- factors may cause different clients to see watches and return codes
- from updates at different times. The key point is that everything seen
- by the different clients will have a consistent order.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>The data for which the watch was
- set</strong>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>This refers to the different ways a node can change. It
- helps to think of ZooKeeper as maintaining two lists of
- watches: data watches and child watches. getData() and
- exists() set data watches. getChildren() sets child
- watches. Alternatively, it may help to think of watches being
- set according to the kind of data returned. getData() and
- exists() return information about the data of the node,
- whereas getChildren() returns a list of children. Thus,
- setData() will trigger data watches for the znode being set
- (assuming the set is successful). A successful create() will
- trigger a data watch for the znode being created and a child
- watch for the parent znode. A successful delete() will trigger
- both a data watch and a child watch (since there can be no
- more children) for a znode being deleted as well as a child
- watch for the parent znode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<p>Watches are maintained locally at the ZooKeeper server to which the
- client is connected. This allows watches to be lightweight to set,
- maintain, and dispatch. When a client connects to a new server, the watch
- will be triggered for any session events. Watches will not be received
- while disconnected from a server. When a client reconnects, any previously
- registered watches will be reregistered and triggered if needed. In
- general this all occurs transparently. There is one case where a watch
- may be missed: a watch for the existence of a znode not yet created will
- be missed if the znode is created and deleted while disconnected.</p>
-<a name="sc_WatchSemantics"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Semantics of Watches</h3>
-<p> We can set watches with the three calls that read the state of
- ZooKeeper: exists, getData, and getChildren. The following list details
- the events that a watch can trigger and the calls that enable them:
- </p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Created event:</strong>
-</p>
-
-<p>Enabled with a call to exists.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Deleted event:</strong>
-</p>
-
-<p>Enabled with a call to exists, getData, and getChildren.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Changed event:</strong>
-</p>
-
-<p>Enabled with a call to exists and getData.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Child event:</strong>
-</p>
-
-<p>Enabled with a call to getChildren.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<a name="sc_WatchRemoval"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Remove Watches</h3>
-<p>We can remove the watches registered on a znode with a call to
- removeWatches. Also, a ZooKeeper client can remove watches locally even
- if there is no server connection by setting the local flag to true. The
- following list details the events which will be triggered after the
- successful watch removal.
- </p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Child Remove event:</strong>
-</p>
-
-<p>Watcher which was added with a call to getChildren.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<strong>Data Remove event:</strong>
-</p>
-
-<p>Watcher which was added with a call to exists or getData.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<a name="sc_WatchGuarantees"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">What ZooKeeper Guarantees about Watches</h3>
-<p>With regard to watches, ZooKeeper maintains these
- guarantees:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Watches are ordered with respect to other events, other
- watches, and asynchronous replies. The ZooKeeper client libraries
- ensures that everything is dispatched in order.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>A client will see a watch event for a znode it is watching
- before seeing the new data that corresponds to that znode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>The order of watch events from ZooKeeper corresponds to the
- order of the updates as seen by the ZooKeeper service.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<a name="sc_WatchRememberThese"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Things to Remember about Watches</h3>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Watches are one time triggers; if you get a watch event and
- you want to get notified of future changes, you must set another
- watch.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Because watches are one time triggers and there is latency
- between getting the event and sending a new request to get a watch
- you cannot reliably see every change that happens to a node in
- ZooKeeper. Be prepared to handle the case where the znode changes
- multiple times between getting the event and setting the watch
- again. (You may not care, but at least realize it may
- happen.)</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>A watch object, or function/context pair, will only be
- triggered once for a given notification. For example, if the same
- watch object is registered for an exists and a getData call for the
- same file and that file is then deleted, the watch object would
- only be invoked once with the deletion notification for the file.
- </p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>When you disconnect from a server (for example, when the
- server fails), you will not get any watches until the connection
- is reestablished. For this reason session events are sent to all
- outstanding watch handlers. Use session events to go into a safe
- mode: you will not be receiving events while disconnected, so your
- process should act conservatively in that mode.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="sc_ZooKeeperAccessControl"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">ZooKeeper access control using ACLs</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>ZooKeeper uses ACLs to control access to its znodes (the
- data nodes of a ZooKeeper data tree). The ACL implementation is
- quite similar to UNIX file access permissions: it employs
- permission bits to allow/disallow various operations against a
- node and the scope to which the bits apply. Unlike standard UNIX
- permissions, a ZooKeeper node is not limited by the three standard
- scopes for user (owner of the file), group, and world
- (other). ZooKeeper does not have a notion of an owner of a
- znode. Instead, an ACL specifies sets of ids and permissions that
- are associated with those ids.</p>
-<p>Note also that an ACL pertains only to a specific znode. In
- particular it does not apply to children. For example, if
- <em>/app</em> is only readable by ip:172.16.16.1 and
- <em>/app/status</em> is world readable, anyone will
- be able to read <em>/app/status</em>; ACLs are not
- recursive.</p>
-<p>ZooKeeper supports pluggable authentication schemes. Ids are
- specified using the form <em>scheme:expression</em>,
- where <em>scheme</em> is the authentication scheme
- that the id corresponds to. The set of valid expressions are defined
- by the scheme. For example, <em>ip:172.16.16.1</em> is
- an id for a host with the address <em>172.16.16.1</em>
- using the <em>ip</em> scheme, whereas <em>digest:bob:password</em>
- is an id for the user with the name of <em>bob</em> using
- the <em>digest</em> scheme.</p>
-<p>When a client connects to ZooKeeper and authenticates
- itself, ZooKeeper associates all the ids that correspond to a
- client with the clients connection. These ids are checked against
- the ACLs of znodes when a clients tries to access a node. ACLs are
- made up of pairs of <em>(scheme:expression,
- perms)</em>. The format of
- the <em>expression</em> is specific to the scheme. For
- example, the pair <em>(ip:19.22.0.0/16, READ)</em>
- gives the <em>READ</em> permission to any clients with
- an IP address that starts with 19.22.</p>
-<a name="sc_ACLPermissions"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">ACL Permissions</h3>
-<p>ZooKeeper supports the following permissions:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>CREATE</strong>: you can create a child node</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>READ</strong>: you can get data from a node and list its children.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>WRITE</strong>: you can set data for a node</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>DELETE</strong>: you can delete a child node</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>ADMIN</strong>: you can set permissions</p>
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<p>The <em>CREATE</em>
- and <em>DELETE</em> permissions have been broken out
- of the <em>WRITE</em> permission for finer grained
- access controls. The cases for <em>CREATE</em>
- and <em>DELETE</em> are the following:</p>
-<p>You want A to be able to do a set on a ZooKeeper node, but
- not be able to <em>CREATE</em>
- or <em>DELETE</em> children.</p>
-<p>
-<em>CREATE</em>
- without <em>DELETE</em>: clients create requests by
- creating ZooKeeper nodes in a parent directory. You want all
- clients to be able to add, but only request processor can
- delete. (This is kind of like the APPEND permission for
- files.)</p>
-<p>Also, the <em>ADMIN</em> permission is there
- since ZooKeeper doesn’t have a notion of file owner. In some
- sense the <em>ADMIN</em> permission designates the
- entity as the owner. ZooKeeper doesn’t support the LOOKUP
- permission (execute permission bit on directories to allow you
- to LOOKUP even though you can't list the directory). Everyone
- implicitly has LOOKUP permission. This allows you to stat a
- node, but nothing more. (The problem is, if you want to call
- zoo_exists() on a node that doesn't exist, there is no
- permission to check.)</p>
-<a name="sc_BuiltinACLSchemes"></a>
-<h4>Builtin ACL Schemes</h4>
-<p>ZooKeeeper has the following built in schemes:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>world</strong> has a
- single id, <em>anyone</em>, that represents
- anyone.</p>
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>auth</strong> is a special
- scheme which ignores any provided expression and instead uses the current user,
- credentials, and scheme. Any expression (whether <em>user</em> like with SASL
- authentication or <em>user:password</em> like with DIGEST authentication) provided is ignored
- by the ZooKeeper server when persisting the ACL. However, the expression must still be
- provided in the ACL because the ACL must match the form <em>scheme:expression:perms</em>.
- This scheme is provided as a convenience as it is a common use-case for
- a user to create a znode and then restrict access to that znode to only that user.
- If there is no authenticated user, setting an ACL with the auth scheme will fail.
- </p>
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>digest</strong> uses
- a <em>username:password</em> string to generate
- MD5 hash which is then used as an ACL ID
- identity. Authentication is done by sending
- the <em>username:password</em> in clear text. When
- used in the ACL the expression will be
- the <em>username:base64</em>
- encoded <em>SHA1</em>
- password <em>digest</em>.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>ip</strong> uses the
- client host IP as an ACL ID identity. The ACL expression is of
- the form <em>addr/bits</em> where the most
- significant <em>bits</em>
- of <em>addr</em> are matched against the most
- significant <em>bits</em> of the client host
- IP.</p>
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<strong>x509</strong> uses the client
- X500 Principal as an ACL ID identity. The ACL expression is the exact
- X500 Principal name of a client. When using the secure port, clients
- are automatically authenticated and their auth info for the x509 scheme
- is set.</p>
-</li>
-
-
-</ul>
-<a name="ZooKeeper+C+client+API"></a>
-<h4>ZooKeeper C client API</h4>
-<p>The following constants are provided by the ZooKeeper C
- library:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>const</em> <em>int</em> ZOO_PERM_READ; //can read node’s value and list its children</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>const</em> <em>int</em> ZOO_PERM_WRITE;// can set the node’s value</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>const</em> <em>int</em> ZOO_PERM_CREATE; //can create children</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>const</em> <em>int</em> ZOO_PERM_DELETE;// can delete children</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>const</em> <em>int</em> ZOO_PERM_ADMIN; //can execute set_acl()</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>const</em> <em>int</em> ZOO_PERM_ALL;// all of the above flags OR’d together</p>
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<p>The following are the standard ACL IDs:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>struct</em> Id ZOO_ANYONE_ID_UNSAFE; //(‘world’,’anyone’)</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>struct</em> Id ZOO_AUTH_IDS;// (‘auth’,’’)</p>
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<p>ZOO_AUTH_IDS empty identity string should be interpreted as “the identity of the creator”.</p>
-<p>ZooKeeper client comes with three standard ACLs:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>struct</em> ACL_vector ZOO_OPEN_ACL_UNSAFE; //(ZOO_PERM_ALL,ZOO_ANYONE_ID_UNSAFE)</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>struct</em> ACL_vector ZOO_READ_ACL_UNSAFE;// (ZOO_PERM_READ, ZOO_ANYONE_ID_UNSAFE)</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>
-<em>struct</em> ACL_vector ZOO_CREATOR_ALL_ACL; //(ZOO_PERM_ALL,ZOO_AUTH_IDS)</p>
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<p>The ZOO_OPEN_ACL_UNSAFE is completely open free for all
- ACL: any application can execute any operation on the node and
- can create, list and delete its children. The
- ZOO_READ_ACL_UNSAFE is read-only access for any
- application. CREATE_ALL_ACL grants all permissions to the
- creator of the node. The creator must have been authenticated by
- the server (for example, using “<em>digest</em>”
- scheme) before it can create nodes with this ACL.</p>
-<p>The following ZooKeeper operations deal with ACLs:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<em>int</em> <em>zoo_add_auth</em>
- (zhandle_t *zh,<em>const</em> <em>char</em>*
- scheme,<em>const</em> <em>char</em>*
- cert, <em>int</em> certLen, void_completion_t
- completion, <em>const</em> <em>void</em>
- *data);</p>
-
-</li>
-</ul>
-<p>The application uses the zoo_add_auth function to
- authenticate itself to the server. The function can be called
- multiple times if the application wants to authenticate using
- different schemes and/or identities.</p>
-<ul>
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<em>int</em> <em>zoo_create</em>
- (zhandle_t *zh, <em>const</em> <em>char</em>
- *path, <em>const</em> <em>char</em>
- *value,<em>int</em>
- valuelen, <em>const</em> <em>struct</em>
- ACL_vector *acl, <em>int</em>
- flags,<em>char</em>
- *realpath, <em>int</em>
- max_realpath_len);</p>
-
-</li>
-</ul>
-<p>zoo_create(...) operation creates a new node. The acl
- parameter is a list of ACLs associated with the node. The parent
- node must have the CREATE permission bit set.</p>
-<ul>
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<em>int</em> <em>zoo_get_acl</em>
- (zhandle_t *zh, <em>const</em> <em>char</em>
- *path,<em>struct</em> ACL_vector
- *acl, <em>struct</em> Stat *stat);</p>
-
-</li>
-</ul>
-<p>This operation returns a node’s ACL info.</p>
-<ul>
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<em>int</em> <em>zoo_set_acl</em>
- (zhandle_t *zh, <em>const</em> <em>char</em>
- *path, <em>int</em>
- version,<em>const</em> <em>struct</em>
- ACL_vector *acl);</p>
-
-</li>
-</ul>
-<p>This function replaces node’s ACL list with a new one. The
- node must have the ADMIN permission set.</p>
-<p>Here is a sample code that makes use of the above APIs to
- authenticate itself using the “<em>foo</em>” scheme
- and create an ephemeral node “/xyz” with create-only
- permissions.</p>
-<div class="note">
-<div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">
-<p>This is a very simple example which is intended to show
- how to interact with ZooKeeper ACLs
- specifically. See <span class="codefrag filename">.../trunk/zookeeper-client/zookeeper-client-c/src/cli.c</span>
- for an example of a C client implementation</p>
-
-</div>
-</div>
-<pre class="code">
-#include <string.h>
-#include <errno.h>
-
-#include "zookeeper.h"
-
-static zhandle_t *zh;
-
-/**
- * In this example this method gets the cert for your
- * environment -- you must provide
- */
-char *foo_get_cert_once(char* id) { return 0; }
-
-/** Watcher function -- empty for this example, not something you should
- * do in real code */
-void watcher(zhandle_t *zzh, int type, int state, const char *path,
- void *watcherCtx) {}
-
-int main(int argc, char argv) {
- char buffer[512];
- char p[2048];
- char *cert=0;
- char appId[64];
-
- strcpy(appId, "example.foo_test");
- cert = foo_get_cert_once(appId);
- if(cert!=0) {
- fprintf(stderr,
- "Certificate for appid [%s] is [%s]\n",appId,cert);
- strncpy(p,cert, sizeof(p)-1);
- free(cert);
- } else {
- fprintf(stderr, "Certificate for appid [%s] not found\n",appId);
- strcpy(p, "dummy");
- }
-
- zoo_set_debug_level(ZOO_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG);
-
- zh = zookeeper_init("localhost:3181", watcher, 10000, 0, 0, 0);
- if (!zh) {
- return errno;
- }
- if(zoo_add_auth(zh,"foo",p,strlen(p),0,0)!=ZOK)
- return 2;
-
- struct ACL CREATE_ONLY_ACL[] = {{ZOO_PERM_CREATE, ZOO_AUTH_IDS}};
- struct ACL_vector CREATE_ONLY = {1, CREATE_ONLY_ACL};
- int rc = zoo_create(zh,"/xyz","value", 5, &CREATE_ONLY, ZOO_EPHEMERAL,
- buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1);
-
- /** this operation will fail with a ZNOAUTH error */
- int buflen= sizeof(buffer);
- struct Stat stat;
- rc = zoo_get(zh, "/xyz", 0, buffer, &buflen, &stat);
- if (rc) {
- fprintf(stderr, "Error %d for %s\n", rc, __LINE__);
- }
-
- zookeeper_close(zh);
- return 0;
-}
- </pre>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="sc_ZooKeeperPluggableAuthentication"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">Pluggable ZooKeeper authentication</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>ZooKeeper runs in a variety of different environments with
- various different authentication schemes, so it has a completely
- pluggable authentication framework. Even the builtin authentication
- schemes use the pluggable authentication framework.</p>
-<p>To understand how the authentication framework works, first you must
- understand the two main authentication operations. The framework
- first must authenticate the client. This is usually done as soon as
- the client connects to a server and consists of validating information
- sent from or gathered about a client and associating it with the connection.
- The second operation handled by the framework is finding the entries in an
- ACL that correspond to client. ACL entries are <<em>idspec,
- permissions</em>> pairs. The <em>idspec</em> may be
- a simple string match against the authentication information associated
- with the connection or it may be a expression that is evaluated against that
- information. It is up to the implementation of the authentication plugin
- to do the match. Here is the interface that an authentication plugin must
- implement:</p>
-<pre class="code">
-public interface AuthenticationProvider {
- String getScheme();
- KeeperException.Code handleAuthentication(ServerCnxn cnxn, byte authData[]);
- boolean isValid(String id);
- boolean matches(String id, String aclExpr);
- boolean isAuthenticated();
-}
- </pre>
-<p>The first method <em>getScheme</em> returns the string
- that identifies the plugin. Because we support multiple methods of authentication,
- an authentication credential or an <em>idspec</em> will always be
- prefixed with <em>scheme:</em>. The ZooKeeper server uses the scheme
- returned by the authentication plugin to determine which ids the scheme
- applies to.</p>
-<p>
-<em>handleAuthentication</em> is called when a client
- sends authentication information to be associated with a connection. The
- client specifies the scheme to which the information corresponds. The
- ZooKeeper server passes the information to the authentication plugin whose
- <em>getScheme</em> matches the scheme passed by the client. The
- implementor of <em>handleAuthentication</em> will usually return
- an error if it determines that the information is bad, or it will associate information
- with the connection using <em>cnxn.getAuthInfo().add(new Id(getScheme(), data))</em>.
- </p>
-<p>The authentication plugin is involved in both setting and using ACLs. When an
- ACL is set for a znode, the ZooKeeper server will pass the id part of the entry to
- the <em>isValid(String id)</em> method. It is up to the plugin to verify
- that the id has a correct form. For example, <em>ip:172.16.0.0/16</em>
- is a valid id, but <em>ip:host.com</em> is not. If the new ACL includes
- an "auth" entry, <em>isAuthenticated</em> is used to see if the
- authentication information for this scheme that is assocatied with the connection
- should be added to the ACL. Some schemes
- should not be included in auth. For example, the IP address of the client is not
- considered as an id that should be added to the ACL if auth is specified.</p>
-<p>ZooKeeper invokes
- <em>matches(String id, String aclExpr)</em> when checking an ACL. It
- needs to match authentication information of the client against the relevant ACL
- entries. To find the entries which apply to the client, the ZooKeeper server will
- find the scheme of each entry and if there is authentication information
- from that client for that scheme, <em>matches(String id, String aclExpr)</em>
- will be called with <em>id</em> set to the authentication information
- that was previously added to the connection by <em>handleAuthentication</em> and
- <em>aclExpr</em> set to the id of the ACL entry. The authentication plugin
- uses its own logic and matching scheme to determine if <em>id</em> is included
- in <em>aclExpr</em>.
- </p>
-<p>There are two built in authentication plugins: <em>ip</em> and
- <em>digest</em>. Additional plugins can adding using system properties. At
- startup the ZooKeeper server will look for system properties that start with
- "zookeeper.authProvider." and interpret the value of those properties as the class name
- of an authentication plugin. These properties can be set using the
- <em>-Dzookeeeper.authProvider.X=com.f.MyAuth</em> or adding entries such as
- the following in the server configuration file:</p>
-<pre class="code">
-authProvider.1=com.f.MyAuth
-authProvider.2=com.f.MyAuth2
- </pre>
-<p>Care should be taking to ensure that the suffix on the property is unique. If there are
- duplicates such as <em>-Dzookeeeper.authProvider.X=com.f.MyAuth -Dzookeeper.authProvider.X=com.f.MyAuth2</em>,
- only one will be used. Also all servers must have the same plugins defined, otherwise clients using
- the authentication schemes provided by the plugins will have problems connecting to some servers.
- </p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="ch_zkGuarantees"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">Consistency Guarantees</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>ZooKeeper is a high performance, scalable service. Both reads and
- write operations are designed to be fast, though reads are faster than
- writes. The reason for this is that in the case of reads, ZooKeeper can
- serve older data, which in turn is due to ZooKeeper's consistency
- guarantees:</p>
-<dl>
-
-<dt>
-<term>Sequential Consistency</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Updates from a client will be applied in the order that they
- were sent.</p>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>Atomicity</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Updates either succeed or fail -- there are no partial
- results.</p>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>Single System Image</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>A client will see the same view of the service regardless of
- the server that it connects to.</p>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>Reliability</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Once an update has been applied, it will persist from that
- time forward until a client overwrites the update. This guarantee
- has two corollaries:</p>
-<ol>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>If a client gets a successful return code, the update will
- have been applied. On some failures (communication errors,
- timeouts, etc) the client will not know if the update has
- applied or not. We take steps to minimize the failures, but the
- guarantee is only present with successful return codes.
- (This is called the <em>monotonicity condition</em> in Paxos.)</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Any updates that are seen by the client, through a read
- request or successful update, will never be rolled back when
- recovering from server failures.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ol>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>Timeliness</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>The clients view of the system is guaranteed to be up-to-date
- within a certain time bound (on the order of tens of seconds).
- Either system changes will be seen by a client within this bound, or
- the client will detect a service outage.</p>
-</dd>
-
-</dl>
-<p>Using these consistency guarantees it is easy to build higher level
- functions such as leader election, barriers, queues, and read/write
- revocable locks solely at the ZooKeeper client (no additions needed to
- ZooKeeper). See <a href="recipes.html">Recipes and Solutions</a>
- for more details.</p>
-<div class="note">
-<div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">
-
-<p>Sometimes developers mistakenly assume one other guarantee that
- ZooKeeper does <em>not</em> in fact make. This is:</p>
-
-
-<dl>
-
-<dt>
-<term>Simultaneously Consistent Cross-Client Views</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>ZooKeeper does not guarantee that at every instance in
- time, two different clients will have identical views of
- ZooKeeper data. Due to factors like network delays, one client
- may perform an update before another client gets notified of the
- change. Consider the scenario of two clients, A and B. If client
- A sets the value of a znode /a from 0 to 1, then tells client B
- to read /a, client B may read the old value of 0, depending on
- which server it is connected to. If it
- is important that Client A and Client B read the same value,
- Client B should should call the <strong>sync()</strong> method from the ZooKeeper API
- method before it performs its read.</p>
-<p>So, ZooKeeper by itself doesn't guarantee that changes occur
- synchronously across all servers, but ZooKeeper
- primitives can be used to construct higher level functions that
- provide useful client synchronization. (For more information,
- see the <a href="recipes.html">ZooKeeper Recipes</a>.
- <em>[tbd:..]</em>).</p>
-</dd>
-
-</dl>
-
-</div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="ch_bindings"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">Bindings</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>The ZooKeeper client libraries come in two languages: Java and C.
- The following sections describe these.</p>
-<a name="Java+Binding"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Java Binding</h3>
-<p>There are two packages that make up the ZooKeeper Java binding:
- <strong>org.apache.zookeeper</strong> and <strong>org.apache.zookeeper.data</strong>. The rest of the
- packages that make up ZooKeeper are used internally or are part of the
- server implementation. The <strong>org.apache.zookeeper.data</strong> package is made up of
- generated classes that are used simply as containers.</p>
-<p>The main class used by a ZooKeeper Java client is the <strong>ZooKeeper</strong> class. Its two constructors differ only
- by an optional session id and password. ZooKeeper supports session
- recovery accross instances of a process. A Java program may save its
- session id and password to stable storage, restart, and recover the
- session that was used by the earlier instance of the program.</p>
-<p>When a ZooKeeper object is created, two threads are created as
- well: an IO thread and an event thread. All IO happens on the IO thread
- (using Java NIO). All event callbacks happen on the event thread.
- Session maintenance such as reconnecting to ZooKeeper servers and
- maintaining heartbeat is done on the IO thread. Responses for
- synchronous methods are also processed in the IO thread. All responses
- to asynchronous methods and watch events are processed on the event
- thread. There are a few things to notice that result from this
- design:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>All completions for asynchronous calls and watcher callbacks
- will be made in order, one at a time. The caller can do any
- processing they wish, but no other callbacks will be processed
- during that time.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Callbacks do not block the processing of the IO thread or the
- processing of the synchronous calls.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Synchronous calls may not return in the correct order. For
- example, assume a client does the following processing: issues an
- asynchronous read of node <strong>/a</strong> with
- <em>watch</em> set to true, and then in the completion
- callback of the read it does a synchronous read of <strong>/a</strong>. (Maybe not good practice, but not illegal
- either, and it makes for a simple example.)</p>
-
-
-<p>Note that if there is a change to <strong>/a</strong> between the asynchronous read and the
- synchronous read, the client library will receive the watch event
- saying <strong>/a</strong> changed before the
- response for the synchronous read, but because the completion
- callback is blocking the event queue, the synchronous read will
- return with the new value of <strong>/a</strong>
- before the watch event is processed.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<p>Finally, the rules associated with shutdown are straightforward:
- once a ZooKeeper object is closed or receives a fatal event
- (SESSION_EXPIRED and AUTH_FAILED), the ZooKeeper object becomes invalid.
- On a close, the two threads shut down and any further access on zookeeper
- handle is undefined behavior and should be avoided. </p>
-<a name="sc_java_client_configuration"></a>
-<h4>Client Configuration Parameters</h4>
-<p>
- The following list contains configuration properties for the Java client. You can set any
- of these properties using Java system properties. For server properties, please check the
- following reference
- <a href="zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_configuration">Server configuration section.</a>
-
-</p>
-<dl>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.sasl.client</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Set the value to <strong>false</strong> to disable
- SASL authentication. Default is <strong>true</strong>.</p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.sasl.clientconfig</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Specifies the context key in the JAAS login file. Default is "Client".</p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.sasl.client.username</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Traditionally, a principal is divided into three parts: the primary, the instance, and the realm.
- The format of a typical Kerberos V5 principal is primary/instance@REALM.
- zookeeper.sasl.client.username specifies the primary part of the server principal. Default
- is "zookeeper". Instance part is derived from the server IP. Finally server's principal is
- username/IP@realm, where username is the value of zookeeper.sasl.client.username, IP is
- the server IP, and realm is the value of zookeeper.server.realm.</p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.server.realm</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Realm part of the server principal. By default it is the client principal realm.</p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.disableAutoWatchReset</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>This switch controls whether automatic watch resetting is enabled. Clients automatically
- reset watches during session reconnect by default, this option allows the client to turn off
- this behavior by setting zookeeper.disableAutoWatchReset to <strong>true</strong>.
- </p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.client.secure</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>
- If you want to connect to the server secure client port, you need to set this property to
- <strong>true</strong>
- on the client. This will connect to server using SSL with specified credentials. Note that
- it requires the Netty client.
- </p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.clientCnxnSocket</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>
- Specifies which ClientCnxnSocket to be used. Possible values are
- <strong>org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNIO</strong>
- and
- <strong>org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNetty</strong>
- . Default is
- <strong>org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNIO</strong>
- . If you want to connect to server's secure client port, you need to set this property to
- <strong>org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNetty</strong>
- on client.
- </p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.ssl.keyStore.location and zookeeper.ssl.keyStore.password</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Specifies the file path to a JKS containing the local credentials to be used for SSL connections,
- and the password to unlock the file.
- </p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.ssl.trustStore.location and zookeeper.ssl.trustStore.password</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Specifies the file path to a JKS containing the remote credentials to be used for SSL connections,
- and the password to unlock the file.
- </p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>jute.maxbuffer</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>It specifies the maximum size of the incoming data from the server. The default value is 4194304
- Bytes , or just 4 MB. This is really a sanity check. The ZooKeeper server is designed to store and send
- data on the order of kilobytes. If incoming data length is more than this value, an IOException
- is raised.</p>
-</dd>
-
-<dt>
-<term>zookeeper.kinit</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Specifies path to kinit binary. Default is "/usr/bin/kinit".</p>
-</dd>
-
-</dl>
-<a name="C+Binding"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">C Binding</h3>
-<p>The C binding has a single-threaded and multi-threaded library.
- The multi-threaded library is easiest to use and is most similar to the
- Java API. This library will create an IO thread and an event dispatch
- thread for handling connection maintenance and callbacks. The
- single-threaded library allows ZooKeeper to be used in event driven
- applications by exposing the event loop used in the multi-threaded
- library.</p>
-<p>The package includes two shared libraries: zookeeper_st and
- zookeeper_mt. The former only provides the asynchronous APIs and
- callbacks for integrating into the application's event loop. The only
- reason this library exists is to support the platforms were a
- <em>pthread</em> library is not available or is unstable
- (i.e. FreeBSD 4.x). In all other cases, application developers should
- link with zookeeper_mt, as it includes support for both Sync and Async
- API.</p>
-<a name="Installation"></a>
-<h4>Installation</h4>
-<p>If you're building the client from a check-out from the Apache
- repository, follow the steps outlined below. If you're building from a
- project source package downloaded from apache, skip to step <strong>3</strong>.</p>
-<ol>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Run <span class="codefrag command">ant compile_jute</span> from the ZooKeeper
- top level directory (<span class="codefrag filename">.../trunk</span>).
- This will create a directory named "generated" under
- <span class="codefrag filename">.../trunk/zookeeper-client/zookeeper-client-c</span>.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Change directory to the<span class="codefrag filename">.../trunk/zookeeper-client/zookeeper-client-c</span>
- and run <span class="codefrag command">autoreconf -if</span> to bootstrap <strong>autoconf</strong>, <strong>automake</strong> and <strong>libtool</strong>. Make sure you have <strong>autoconf version 2.59</strong> or greater installed.
- Skip to step<strong> 4</strong>.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>If you are building from a project source package,
- unzip/untar the source tarball and cd to the<span class="codefrag filename">
- zookeeper-x.x.x/zookeeper-client/zookeeper-client-c</span> directory.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Run <span class="codefrag command">./configure <your-options></span> to
- generate the makefile. Here are some of options the <strong>configure</strong> utility supports that can be
- useful in this step:</p>
-
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<span class="codefrag command">--enable-debug</span>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>Enables optimization and enables debug info compiler
- options. (Disabled by default.)</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<span class="codefrag command">--without-syncapi </span>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>Disables Sync API support; zookeeper_mt library won't be
- built. (Enabled by default.)</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<span class="codefrag command">--disable-static </span>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>Do not build static libraries. (Enabled by
- default.)</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<span class="codefrag command">--disable-shared</span>
-</p>
-
-
-<p>Do not build shared libraries. (Enabled by
- default.)</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-
-<div class="note">
-<div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">
-
-<p>See INSTALL for general information about running
- <strong>configure</strong>.</p>
-
-</div>
-</div>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Run <span class="codefrag command">make</span> or <span class="codefrag command">make
- install</span> to build the libraries and install them.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>To generate doxygen documentation for the ZooKeeper API, run
- <span class="codefrag command">make doxygen-doc</span>. All documentation will be
- placed in a new subfolder named docs. By default, this command
- only generates HTML. For information on other document formats,
- run <span class="codefrag command">./configure --help</span>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ol>
-<a name="Building+Your+Own+C+Client"></a>
-<h4>Building Your Own C Client</h4>
-<p>In order to be able to use the ZooKeeper C API in your application
- you have to remember to</p>
-<ol>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Include ZooKeeper header: #include
- <zookeeper/zookeeper.h></p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>If you are building a multithreaded client, compile with
- -DTHREADED compiler flag to enable the multi-threaded version of
- the library, and then link against against the
- <em>zookeeper_mt</em> library. If you are building a
- single-threaded client, do not compile with -DTHREADED, and be
- sure to link against the<em> zookeeper_st
- </em>library.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ol>
-<div class="note">
-<div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">
-<p>See <span class="codefrag filename">.../trunk/zookeeper-client/zookeeper-client-c/src/cli.c</span>
- for an example of a C client implementation</p>
-
-</div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="ch_guideToZkOperations"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">Building Blocks: A Guide to ZooKeeper Operations</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>This section surveys all the operations a developer can perform
- against a ZooKeeper server. It is lower level information than the earlier
- concepts chapters in this manual, but higher level than the ZooKeeper API
- Reference. It covers these topics:</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>
-<a href="#sc_connectingToZk">Connecting to ZooKeeper</a>
-</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ul>
-<a name="sc_errorsZk"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Handling Errors</h3>
-<p>Both the Java and C client bindings may report errors. The Java client binding does so by throwing KeeperException, calling code() on the exception will return the specific error code. The C client binding returns an error code as defined in the enum ZOO_ERRORS. API callbacks indicate result code for both language bindings. See the API documentation (javadoc for Java, doxygen for C) for full details on the possible errors and their meaning.</p>
-<a name="sc_connectingToZk"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Connecting to ZooKeeper</h3>
-<p></p>
-<a name="sc_readOps"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Read Operations</h3>
-<p></p>
-<a name="sc_writeOps"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Write Operations</h3>
-<p></p>
-<a name="sc_handlingWatches"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Handling Watches</h3>
-<p></p>
-<a name="sc_miscOps"></a>
-<h3 class="h4">Miscelleaneous ZooKeeper Operations</h3>
-<p></p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="ch_programStructureWithExample"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">Program Structure, with Simple Example</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>
-<em>[tbd]</em>
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="ch_gotchas"></a>
-<h2 class="h3">Gotchas: Common Problems and Troubleshooting</h2>
-<div class="section">
-<p>So now you know ZooKeeper. It's fast, simple, your application
- works, but wait ... something's wrong. Here are some pitfalls that
- ZooKeeper users fall into:</p>
-<ol>
-
-<li>
-
-<p>If you are using watches, you must look for the connected watch
- event. When a ZooKeeper client disconnects from a server, you will
- not receive notification of changes until reconnected. If you are
- watching for a znode to come into existence, you will miss the event
- if the znode is created and deleted while you are disconnected.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>You must test ZooKeeper server failures. The ZooKeeper service
- can survive failures as long as a majority of servers are active. The
- question to ask is: can your application handle it? In the real world
- a client's connection to ZooKeeper can break. (ZooKeeper server
- failures and network partitions are common reasons for connection
- loss.) The ZooKeeper client library takes care of recovering your
- connection and letting you know what happened, but you must make sure
- that you recover your state and any outstanding requests that failed.
- Find out if you got it right in the test lab, not in production - test
- with a ZooKeeper service made up of a several of servers and subject
- them to reboots.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>The list of ZooKeeper servers used by the client must match the
- list of ZooKeeper servers that each ZooKeeper server has. Things can
- work, although not optimally, if the client list is a subset of the
- real list of ZooKeeper servers, but not if the client lists ZooKeeper
- servers not in the ZooKeeper cluster.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Be careful where you put that transaction log. The most
- performance-critical part of ZooKeeper is the transaction log.
- ZooKeeper must sync transactions to media before it returns a
- response. A dedicated transaction log device is key to consistent good
- performance. Putting the log on a busy device will adversely effect
- performance. If you only have one storage device, put trace files on
- NFS and increase the snapshotCount; it doesn't eliminate the problem,
- but it can mitigate it.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-
-<li>
-
-<p>Set your Java max heap size correctly. It is very important to
- <em>avoid swapping.</em> Going to disk unnecessarily will
- almost certainly degrade your performance unacceptably. Remember, in
- ZooKeeper, everything is ordered, so if one request hits the disk, all
- other queued requests hit the disk.</p>
-
-
-<p>To avoid swapping, try to set the heapsize to the amount of
- physical memory you have, minus the amount needed by the OS and cache.
- The best way to determine an optimal heap size for your configurations
- is to <em>run load tests</em>. If for some reason you
- can't, be conservative in your estimates and choose a number well
- below the limit that would cause your machine to swap. For example, on
- a 4G machine, a 3G heap is a conservative estimate to start
- with.</p>
-
-</li>
-
-</ol>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="apx_linksToOtherInfo"></a>
-<appendix id="apx_linksToOtherInfo">
-
-<title>Links to Other Information</title>
-
-
-<p>Outside the formal documentation, there're several other sources of
- information for ZooKeeper developers.</p>
-
-
-<dl>
-
-<dt>
-<term>ZooKeeper Whitepaper <em>[tbd: find url]</em>
-</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>The definitive discussion of ZooKeeper design and performance,
- by Yahoo! Research</p>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>API Reference <em>[tbd: find url]</em>
-</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>The complete reference to the ZooKeeper API</p>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>
-<a href="http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/ydn/zookeeper.m4v">ZooKeeper
- Talk at the Hadoup Summit 2008</a>
-</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>A video introduction to ZooKeeper, by Benjamin Reed of Yahoo!
- Research</p>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>
-<a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/Tutorial">Barrier and
- Queue Tutorial</a>
-</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>The excellent Java tutorial by Flavio Junqueira, implementing
- simple barriers and producer-consumer queues using ZooKeeper.</p>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>
-<a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/ZooKeeperArticles">ZooKeeper
- - A Reliable, Scalable Distributed Coordination System</a>
-</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>An article by Todd Hoff (07/15/2008)</p>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>
-<a href="recipes.html">ZooKeeper Recipes</a>
-</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Pseudo-level discussion of the implementation of various
- synchronization solutions with ZooKeeper: Event Handles, Queues,
- Locks, and Two-phase Commits.</p>
-</dd>
-
-
-<dt>
-<term>
-<em>[tbd]</em>
-</term>
-</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>Any other good sources anyone can think of...</p>
-</dd>
-
-</dl>
-
-</appendix>
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