Documentation For Writing ZooKeeper Client

[Paul Cavallaro <pa...@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I'm trying to find documentation about the ZooKeeper protocol from the
perspective of a client talking to a server cluster. Is there a suggested
place to find that kind of documentation, or would I be better off just
reading other client's source code?

Thanks,

-Paul

Re: Documentation For Writing ZooKeeper Client

[Paul Cavallaro <pa...@gmail.com>]

Awesome, thank you for all the pointers. I'll try to contribute back
documentation as I learn more about how the client <-> server protocol
works. Doing a little bit of digging, it looks like jute is a ZooKeeper
specific IDL (similar to Thrift/ProtocolBuffers/CapnProto), so I'll take a
look at that and the surrounding code.

Thanks,

-Paul

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Flavio Junqueira <fp...@apache.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure what level you're after, but there is this diagram on
> zookeeper sessions:
>
>
> http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions
> <
> http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions
> >
>
> and if you are after specifics of the protocol, I suggest you have a look
> at the jute file. And, while you are at it, if you're interested in
> contributing some documentation back, we would certainly appreciate it.
>
> -Flavio
>
> > On 30 Nov 2015, at 22:40, Paul Cavallaro <pa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to find documentation about the ZooKeeper protocol from the
> > perspective of a client talking to a server cluster. Is there a suggested
> > place to find that kind of documentation, or would I be better off just
> > reading other client's source code?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Paul
>
>

Re: Documentation For Writing ZooKeeper Client

[Flavio Junqueira <fp...@apache.org>]

I'm not sure what level you're after, but there is this diagram on zookeeper sessions:

http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions <http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions>

and if you are after specifics of the protocol, I suggest you have a look at the jute file. And, while you are at it, if you're interested in contributing some documentation back, we would certainly appreciate it.

-Flavio

> On 30 Nov 2015, at 22:40, Paul Cavallaro <pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to find documentation about the ZooKeeper protocol from the
> perspective of a client talking to a server cluster. Is there a suggested
> place to find that kind of documentation, or would I be better off just
> reading other client's source code?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Paul

Re: Documentation For Writing ZooKeeper Client

[Ivan Kelly <iv...@apache.org>]

> I'm trying to find documentation about the ZooKeeper protocol from the
> perspective of a client talking to a server cluster. Is there a suggested
> place to find that kind of documentation, or would I be better off just
> reading other client's source code?
I've never seen nor heard of such a document, so reading the source
code is probably your best option.

-Ivan