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+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Core Library API</a></h2>
+<p>The distributedlog core library interacts with namespaces and logs directly.
+It is written in Java.</p>
+<div class="section" id="namespace-api">
+<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Namespace API</a></h3>
+<p>A DL namespace is a collection of <em>log streams</em>. Applications could <em>create</em>
+or <em>delete</em> logs under a DL namespace.</p>
+<div class="section" id="namespace-uri">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Namespace URI</a></h4>
+<p>An <strong>URI</strong> is used to locate the <em>namespace</em>. The <em>Namespace URI</em> is typically
+comprised of <em>3</em> components:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>scheme: <cite>distributedlog-&lt;backend&gt;</cite>. The <em>backend</em> indicates what backend is used to store the log data.</li>
+<li>domain name: the domain name that used to talk to the <em>backend</em>. In the example as below, the domain name part is <em>zookeeper server</em>, which is used to store log metadata in bookkeeper based backend implementation.</li>
+<li>path: path points to the location that stores logs. In the example as below, it is a zookeeper path that points to the znode that stores all the logs metadata.</li>
+</ul>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+distributedlog-bk://&lt;zookeeper-server&gt;/path/to/stream
+</pre>
+<p>The available backend is only bookkeeper based backend.
+The default <cite>distributedlog</cite> scheme is aliased to <cite>distributedlog-bk</cite>.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="building-a-namespace">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Building a Namespace</a></h4>
+<p>Once you have the <em>namespace uri</em>, you could build the namespace instance.
+The namespace instance will be used for operating streams under it.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+// DistributedLog Configuration
+DistributedLogConfiguration conf = new DistributedLogConfiguration();
+// Namespace URI
+URI uri = ...; // create the namespace uri
+// create a builder to build namespace instances
+DistributedLogNamespaceBuilder builder = DistributedLogNamespaceBuilder.newBuilder();
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = builder
+    .conf(conf)             // configuration that used by namespace
+    .uri(uri)               // namespace uri
+    .statsLogger(...)       // stats logger to log stats
+    .featureProvider(...)   // feature provider on controlling features
+    .build();
+</pre>
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+<div class="section" id="create-a-log">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Create a Log</a></h4>
+<p>Creating a log is pretty straight forward by calling <cite>distributedlognamespace#createlog(logname)</cite>.
+it only creates the log under the namespace but doesn't return any handle for operating the log.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = ...; // namespace
+try {
+    namespace.createLog(&quot;test-log&quot;);
+} catch (IOException ioe) {
+    // handling the exception on creating a log
+}
+</pre>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="open-a-log">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">Open a Log</a></h4>
+<p>A <cite>DistributedLogManager</cite> handle will be returned when opening a log by <cite>#openLog(logName)</cite>. The
+handle could be used for writing data to or reading data from the log. If the log doesn't exist
+and <cite>createStreamIfNotExists</cite> is set to true in the configuration, the log will be created
+automatically when writing first record.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogConfiguration conf = new DistributedLogConfiguration();
+conf.setCreateStreamIfNotExists(true);
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = DistributedLogNamespace.newBuilder()
+    .conf(conf)
+    ...
+    .build();
+DistributedLogManager logManager = namespace.openLog(&quot;test-log&quot;);
+// use the log manager to open writer to write data or open reader to read data
+...
+</pre>
+<p>Sometimes, applications may open a log with different configuration settings. It could be done via
+a overloaded <cite>#openLog</cite> method, as below:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogConfiguration conf = new DistributedLogConfiguration();
+// set the retention period hours to 24 hours.
+conf.setRetentionPeriodHours(24);
+URI uri = ...;
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = DistributedLogNamespace.newBuilder()
+    .conf(conf)
+    .uri(uri)
+    ...
+    .build();
+
+// Per Log Configuration
+DistributedLogConfigration logConf = new DistributedLogConfiguration();
+// set the retention period hours to 12 hours for a single stream
+logConf.setRetentionPeriodHours(12);
+
+// open the log with overrided settings
+DistributedLogManager logManager = namespace.openLog(&quot;test-log&quot;,
+    Optional.of(logConf),
+    Optiona.absent());
+</pre>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="delete-a-log">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">Delete a Log</a></h4>
+<p><cite>DistributedLogNamespace#deleteLog(logName)</cite> will deletes the log from the namespace. Deleting a log
+will attempt acquiring a lock before deletion. If a log is writing by an active writer, the lock
+would be already acquired by the writer. so the deleting will fail.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = ...;
+try {
+    namespace.deleteLog(&quot;test-log&quot;);
+} catch (IOException ioe) {
+    // handle the exceptions
+}
+</pre>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="log-existence">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9">Log Existence</a></h4>
+<p>Applications could check whether a log exists in a namespace by calling <cite>DistributedLogNamespace#logExists(logName)</cite>.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = ...;
+if (namespace.logExists(&quot;test-log&quot;)) {
+    // actions when log exists
+} else {
+    // actions when log doesn't exist
+}
+</pre>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="get-list-of-logs">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10">Get List of Logs</a></h4>
+<p>Applications could list the logs under a namespace by calling <cite>DistributedLogNamespace#getLogs()</cite>.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = ...;
+Iterator&lt;String&gt; logs = namespace.getLogs();
+while (logs.hasNext()) {
+    String logName = logs.next();
+    // ... process the log
+}
+</pre>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="writer-api">
+<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11">Writer API</a></h3>
+<p>There are two ways to write records into a log stream, one is using 'synchronous' <cite>LogWriter</cite>, while the other one is using
+asynchronous <cite>AsyncLogWriter</cite>.</p>
+<div class="section" id="logwriter">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12">LogWriter</a></h4>
+<p>The first thing to write data into a log stream is to construct the writer instance. Please note that the distributedlog core library enforce single-writer
+semantic by deploying a zookeeper locking mechanism. If there is only an active writer, the subsequent calls to <cite>#startLogSegmentNonPartitioned()</cite> will
+fail with <cite>OwnershipAcquireFailedException</cite>.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = ....;
+DistributedLogManager dlm = namespace.openLog(&quot;test-log&quot;);
+LogWriter writer = dlm.startLogSegmentNonPartitioned();
+</pre>
+<p id="construct-log-record">Log records are constructed to represent the data written to a log stream. Each log record is associated with application defined transaction id.
+The transaction id has to be non-decreasing otherwise writing the record will be rejected with <cite>TransactionIdOutOfOrderException</cite>. Application is allowed to
+bypass the transaction id sanity checking by setting <cite>maxIdSanityCheck</cite> to false in configuration. System time and atomic numbers are good candicates used for
+transaction id.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+long txid = 1L;
+byte[] data = ...;
+LogRecord record = new LogRecord(txid, data);
+</pre>
+<p>Application could either add a single record (via <cite>#write(LogRecord)</cite>) or a bunch of records (via <cite>#writeBulk(List&lt;LogRecord&gt;)</cite>) into the log stream.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+writer.write(record);
+// or
+List&lt;LogRecord&gt; records = Lists.newArrayList();
+records.add(record);
+writer.writeBulk(records);
+</pre>
+<p>The write calls return immediately after the records are added into the output buffer of writer. So the data isn't guaranteed to be durable until writer
+explicitly calls <cite>#setReadyToFlush()</cite> and <cite>#flushAndSync()</cite>. Those two calls will first transmit buffered data to backend, wait for transmit acknowledges
+and commit the written data to make them visible to readers.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+// flush the records
+writer.setReadyToFlush();
+// commit the records to make them visible to readers
+writer.flushAndSync();
+</pre>
+<p>The DL log streams are endless streams unless they are sealed. 'endless' means that writers keep writing records to the log streams, readers could keep
+tailing reading from the end of the streams and it never stops. Application could seal a log stream by calling <cite>#markEndOfStream()</cite>.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+// seal the log stream
+writer.markEndOfStream();
+</pre>
+<p>The complete example of writing records is showed as below.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = ....;
+DistributedLogManager dlm = namespace.openLog(&quot;test-log&quot;);
+
+LogWriter writer = dlm.startLogSegmentNonPartitioned();
+for (long txid = 1L; txid &lt;= 100L; txid++) {
+    byte[] data = ...;
+    LogRecord record = new LogRecord(txid, data);
+    writer.write(record);
+}
+// flush the records
+writer.setReadyToFlush();
+// commit the records to make them visible to readers
+writer.flushAndSync();
+
+// seal the log stream
+writer.markEndOfStream();
+</pre>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="asynclogwriter">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13">AsyncLogWriter</a></h4>
+<p>Constructing an asynchronous <cite>AsyncLogWriter</cite> is as simple as synchronous <cite>LogWriter</cite>.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogNamespace namespace = ....;
+DistributedLogManager dlm = namespace.openLog(&quot;test-log&quot;);
+AsyncLogWriter writer = dlm.startAsyncLogSegmentNonPartitioned();
+</pre>
+<p>All the writes to <cite>AsyncLogWriter</cite> are asynchronous. The futures representing write results are only satisfied when the data are persisted in the stream durably.
+A DLSN (distributedlog sequence number) will be returned for each write, which is used to represent the position (aka offset) of the record in the log stream.
+All the records adding in order are guaranteed to be persisted in order.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block" id="async-write-records">
+List&lt;Future&lt;DLSN&gt;&gt; addFutures = Lists.newArrayList();
+for (long txid = 1L; txid &lt;= 100L; txid++) {
+    byte[] data = ...;
+    LogRecord record = new LogRecord(txid, data);
+    addFutures.add(writer.write(record));
+}
+List&lt;DLSN&gt; addResults = Await.result(Future.collect(addFutures));
+</pre>
+<p>The <cite>AsyncLogWriter</cite> also provides the method to truncate a stream to a given DLSN. This is super helpful for building replicated state machines, who need
+explicit controls on when the data could be deleted.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DLSN truncateDLSN = ...;
+Future&lt;DLSN&gt; truncateFuture = writer.truncate(truncateDLSN);
+// wait for truncation result
+Await.result(truncateFuture);
+</pre>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="reader-api">
+<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14">Reader API</a></h3>
+<div class="section" id="sequence-numbers">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15">Sequence Numbers</a></h4>
+<p>A log record is associated with sequence numbers. First of all, application can assign its own sequence number (called <cite>TransactionID</cite>)
+to the log record while writing it (see <a class="reference internal" href="#construct-log-record">Construct Log Record</a>). Secondly, a log record will be assigned with an unique system generated sequence number
+<cite>DLSN</cite> (distributedlog sequence number) when it is written to a log (see <a class="reference internal" href="#async-write-records">Async Write Records</a>). Besides <cite>DLSN</cite> and <cite>TransactionID</cite>,
+a monotonically increasing 64-bits <cite>SequenceId</cite> is assigned to the record at read time, indicating its position within the log.</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Transaction ID:</th><td class="field-body">Transaction ID is a positive 64-bits long number that is assigned by the application.
+Transaction ID is very helpful when application wants to organize the records and position the readers using their own sequencing method. A typical
+use case of <cite>Transaction ID</cite> is <cite>DistributedLog Write Proxy</cite>. The write proxy assigns non-decreasing timestamps to log records, which the timestamps
+could be used as <cite>physical time</cite> to implement <cite>TTL</cite> (Time To Live) feature in a strong consistent database.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">DLSN:</th><td class="field-body">DLSN (DistributedLog Sequence Number) is the sequence number generated during written time.
+DLSN is comparable and could be used to figure out the order between records. A DLSN is comprised with 3 components. They are <cite>Log Segment Sequence Number</cite>,
+<cite>Entry Id</cite> and <cite>Slot Id</cite>. The DLSN is usually used for comparison, positioning and truncation.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Sequence ID:</th><td class="field-body">Sequence ID is introduced to address the drawback of <cite>DLSN</cite>, in favor of answering questions like <cite>how many records written between two DLSNs</cite>.
+Sequence ID is a 64-bits monotonic increasing number starting from zero. The sequence ids are computed during reading, and only accessible by readers.
+That means writers don't know the sequence ids of records at the point they wrote them.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>The readers could be positioned to start reading from any positions in the log, by using <cite>DLSN</cite> or <cite>Transaction ID</cite>.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="logreader">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16">LogReader</a></h4>
+<p><cite>LogReader</cite> is a 'synchronous' sequential reader reading records from a log stream starting from a given position. The position could be
+<cite>DLSN</cite> (via <cite>#getInputStream(DLSN)</cite>) or <cite>Transaction ID</cite> (via <cite>#getInputStream(long)</cite>). After the reader is open, it could call either
+<cite>#readNext(boolean)</cite> or <cite>#readBulk(boolean, int)</cite> to read records out of the log stream sequentially. Closing the reader (via <cite>#close()</cite>)
+will release all the resources occupied by this reader instance.</p>
+<p>Exceptions could be thrown during reading records due to various issues. Once the exception is thrown, the reader is set to an error state
+and it isn't usable anymore. It is the application's responsibility to handle the exceptions and re-create readers if necessary.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogManager dlm = ...;
+long nextTxId = ...;
+LogReader reader = dlm.getInputStream(nextTxId);
+
+while (true) { // keep reading &amp; processing records
+    LogRecord record;
+    try {
+        record = reader.readNext(false);
+        nextTxId = record.getTransactionId();
+        // process the record
+        ...
+    } catch (IOException ioe) {
+        // handle the exception
+        ...
+        reader = dlm.getInputStream(nextTxId + 1);
+    }
+}
+</pre>
+<p>Reading records from an endless log stream in <cite>synchronous</cite> way isn't as trivial as in <cite>asynchronous</cite> way. Because it lacks of callback mechanism.
+Instead, <cite>LogReader</cite> introduces a flag <cite>nonBlocking</cite> on controlling the waiting behavior on <cite>synchronous</cite> reads. Blocking (<cite>nonBlocking = false</cite>)
+means the reads will wait for records before returning read calls, while NonBlocking (<cite>nonBlocking = true</cite>) means the reads will only check readahead
+cache and return whatever records available in readahead cache.</p>
+<p>The <cite>waiting</cite> period varies in <cite>blocking</cite> mode. If the reader is catching up with writer (there are plenty of records in the log), the read call will
+wait until records are read and returned. If the reader is already caught up with writer (there are no more records in the log at read time), the read
+call will wait for a small period of time (defined in <cite>DistributedLogConfiguration#getReadAheadWaitTime()</cite>) and return whatever records available in
+readahead cache. In other words, if a reader sees no record on blocking reads, it means the reader is <cite>caught-up</cite> with the writer.</p>
+<p>See examples below on how to read records using <cite>LogReader</cite>.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+// Read individual records
+
+LogReader reader = ...;
+// keep reading records in blocking mode until no records available in the log
+LogRecord record = reader.readNext(false);
+while (null != record) {
+    // process the record
+    ...
+    // read next record
+    record = reader.readNext(false);
+}
+...
+
+// reader is caught up with writer, doing non-blocking reads to tail the log
+while (true) {
+    record = reader.readNext(true);
+    if (null == record) {
+        // no record available yet. backoff ?
+        ...
+    } else {
+        // process the new record
+        ...
+    }
+}
+</pre>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+// Read records in batch
+
+LogReader reader = ...;
+int N = 10;
+
+// keep reading N records in blocking mode until no records available in the log
+List&lt;LogRecord&gt; records = reader.readBulk(false, N);
+while (!records.isEmpty()) {
+    // process the list of records
+    ...
+    if (records.size() &lt; N) { // no more records available in the log
+        break;
+    }
+    // read next N records
+    records = reader.readBulk(false, N);
+}
+
+...
+
+// reader is caught up with writer, doing non-blocking reads to tail the log
+while (true) {
+    records = reader.readBulk(true, N);
+    // process the new records
+    ...
+}
+</pre>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="asynclogreader">
+<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17">AsyncLogReader</a></h4>
+<p>Similar as <cite>LogReader</cite>, applications could open an <cite>AsyncLogReader</cite> by positioning to different positions, either <cite>DLSN</cite> or <cite>Transaction ID</cite>.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogManager dlm = ...;
+
+Future&lt;AsyncLogReader&gt; openFuture;
+
+// position the reader to transaction id `999`
+openFuture = dlm.openAsyncLogReader(999L);
+
+// or position the reader to DLSN
+DLSN fromDLSN = ...;
+openFuture = dlm.openAsyncLogReader(fromDLSN);
+
+AsyncLogReader reader = Await.result(openFuture);
+</pre>
+<p>Reading records from an <cite>AsyncLogReader</cite> is asynchronously. The future returned by <cite>#readNext()</cite>, <cite>#readBulk(int)</cite> or <cite>#readBulk(int, long, TimeUnit)</cite>
+represents the result of the read operation. The future is only satisfied when there are records available. Application could chain the futures
+to do sequential reads.</p>
+<p>Reading records one by one from an <cite>AsyncLogReader</cite>.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+void readOneRecord(AsyncLogReader reader) {
+    reader.readNext().addEventListener(new FutureEventListener&lt;LogRecordWithDLSN&gt;() {
+        public void onSuccess(LogRecordWithDLSN record) {
+            // process the record
+            ...
+            // read next
+            readOneRecord(reader);
+        }
+        public void onFailure(Throwable cause) {
+            // handle errors and re-create reader
+            ...
+            reader = ...;
+            // read next
+            readOneRecord(reader);
+        }
+    });
+}
+
+AsyncLogReader reader = ...;
+readOneRecord(reader);
+</pre>
+<p>Reading records in batches from an <cite>AsyncLogReader</cite>.</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+void readBulk(AsyncLogReader reader, int N) {
+    reader.readBulk(N).addEventListener(new FutureEventListener&lt;List&lt;LogRecordWithDLSN&gt;&gt;() {
+        public void onSuccess(List&lt;LogRecordWithDLSN&gt; records) {
+            // process the records
+            ...
+            // read next
+            readBulk(reader, N);
+        }
+        public void onFailure(Throwable cause) {
+            // handle errors and re-create reader
+            ...
+            reader = ...;
+            // read next
+            readBulk(reader, N);
+        }
+    });
+}
+
+AsyncLogReader reader = ...;
+readBulk(reader, N);
+</pre>
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+<p><cite>Fat Client</cite> is the writer in distributedlog core library which talks to ZooKeeper and BookKeeper directly,
+while <cite>Thin Client</cite> is the write proxy client which talks to write proxy service.</p>
+<p>It is strongly recommended that writing records via <cite>Write Proxy</cite> service rather than using core library directly.
+Because using <cite>Thin Client</cite> has following benefits:</p>
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+<li><cite>Thin Client</cite> is purely thrift RPC based client. It doesn't talk to zookeeper and bookkeeper directly and less complicated.</li>
+<li><cite>Write Proxy</cite> manages ownerships of log writers. <cite>Thin Client</cite> doesn't have to deal with ownerships of log writers.</li>
+<li><cite>Thin Client</cite> is more upgrade-friendly than <cite>Fat Client</cite>.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The only exception to use distributedlog core library directly is when you application requires:</p>
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+<li>Write Ordering. <cite>Write Ordering</cite> means all the writes issued by the writer should be written in a strict order
+in the log. <cite>Write Proxy</cite> service could only guarantee <cite>Read Ordering</cite>. <cite>Read Ordering</cite> means the write proxies will write
+the write requests in their receiving order and gurantee the data seen by all the readers in same order.</li>
+<li>Ownership Management. If the application already has any kind of ownership management, like <cite>master-slave</cite>, it makes more
+sense that it uses distributedlog core library directly.</li>
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+<p>Sometimes, application wants to read data by time, like read data from 2 hours ago. This could be done by positioning
+the reader using <cite>Transaction ID</cite>, if the <cite>Transaction ID</cite> is the timestamp (All the streams produced by <cite>Write Proxy</cite> use
+timestamp as <cite>Transaction ID</cite>).</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogManager dlm = ...;
+
+long timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
+long startTxId = timestamp - TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(2, TimeUnit.HOURS);
+AsyncLogReader reader = Await.result(dlm.openAsyncLogReader(startTxId));
+...
+</pre>
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+<p>Typically, DistributedLog is used as endless streams. In some use cases, application wants to <cite>seal</cite> the stream. So writers
+can't write more data into the log stream and readers could receive notifications about the stream has been sealed.</p>
+<p>Write could seal a log stream as below:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogManager dlm = ...;
+
+LogWriter writer = dlm.startLogSegmentNonPartitioned;
+// writer writes bunch of records
+...
+
+// writer seals the stream
+writer.markEndOfStream();
+</pre>
+<p>Reader could detect a stream has been sealed as below:</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">
+DistributedLogManager dlm = ...;
+
+LogReader reader = dlm.getInputStream(1L);
+LogRecord record;
+try {
+    while ((record = reader.readNext(false)) != null) {
+        // process the record
+        ...
+    }
+} catch (EndOfStreamException eos) {
+    // the stream has been sealed
+    ...
+}
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