Hi Andre, YOu might want to take a look at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-30
There is already some work that was done as part of extracting ZAB. thanks mahadev On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:07 PM, André Oriani <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > As I mentioned in an early post , I am working on a personal project to > extract Zab (zab <https://github.com/aoriani/zab>) from ZooKeeper for my MS > project. I am doing that by bring one class from Zookeeper to my code at > time. I am not planning to have clients , so the only proposer are the > servers in the quorum. > > Now that I have finish bringing the leader election (almost , still need to > bring NEWLEADER proposal) , I am starting with I think is the hard part: > Leader, Leaner e Processor classes. They are harder because I need to > change code dealing with Zookeeper requests to work in a abcast/adeliver > fashion. > > Well, stopping the chitchatting, my question is : the class Request has the > fields cxn, sessionId,cxid and TnxHeader has also clientId. I did a grep on > the code and little operation is done over those fields. Most of the time > they are copied from a data structure to another. My guess is that they are > used by the quorum members to identify if committed proposal belongs to one > of its clients. Since my code is not going to deal with clients, can I > remove those fields? Or do they play some role in the atomic broadcast > protocol that I haven`t realized yet ? > > > Thanks, > André > -- thanks mahadev @mahadevkonar
