Hi, What is the best approach to have an idempotent create() operation for a sequential node?
Suppose a client is trying to create a sequential node and it gets a ConnectionLoss KeeperException, it cannot know for sure whether the request succeeded or not. If in the meantime, the client's session is re-established, the client would like to create a sequential znode again. However, the client needs to know if its earlier request has succeeded or not. If it did, then the client does not need to retry. To my understanding ZooKeeper does not provide this feature. Can someone confirm this? External to ZooKeeper, the client can either set a unique UUID in the path to the create call or write the UUID as part of its data. Before retrying, it can read back all the children of the parent znode and go through the list to determine if its earlier request had succeeded. This doesn't sound that appealing to me. I am guessing this is a common problem that many would have faced. Can folks give a feedback on what their approach was? Thanks. -Vishal
