Github user cammckenzie commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/curator/pull/140#discussion_r57663597 --- Diff: curator-recipes/src/main/java/org/apache/curator/framework/recipes/nodes/PersistentNode.java --- @@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ public String getActualPath() public void setData(byte[] data) throws Exception { data = Preconditions.checkNotNull(data, "data cannot be null"); + Preconditions.checkState(nodePath.get() != null, "initial create has not been processed. Call waitForInitialCreate() to ensure."); this.data.set(Arrays.copyOf(data, data.length)); --- End diff -- Isn't this potentially going to break legacy clients depending on how they handle exceptions thrown from this method?
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