For some reason I thought there were commands that took raft term/index
parameters and would show details over that but now I'm not seeing it so
perhaps I am just losing my mind. Too many consensus systems.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Flavio Junqueira <
[email protected]> wrote:

> What raft enhancements?
>
> -Flavio
>
> > On 11 Apr 2015, at 20:07, Camille Fournier <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > It does look like embedding the existing REST contrib into the servers
> > themselves would answer the use case I'm seeing. Then it might just be a
> > matter of making it clear that this option is available ;)
> >
> > We may also look to see what the API exposed by etcd/consul is. Perhaps a
> > generic API standard for accessing systems like this via HTTP would be
> > nice, for cross-compatibility. There are going to be some differences due
> > to the raft enhancements but the basics could be designed to be
> > cross-compatible.
> >
> > C
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> We pack quite a bit of functionality in our client side libraries.
> That's
> >> probably one of the main things you'll noticed if you try to use REST.
> But
> >> then if your use case is primarily configuration, or something that
> doesn't
> >> require sessions then the current REST support should be more than
> >> sufficient. What are the other systems doing that we are currently not
> >> doing wrt API support?
> >>
> >> I'd think that taking our current rest contrib, updating the
> dependencies,
> >> and deploying as part of the embedded jetty would work well with minimal
> >> effort.
> >>
> >> Patrick
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Camille Fournier <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I agree that they have to write clients that do work, but there is
> >> clearly
> >>> a desire and willingness out there to do that work in exchange for a
> more
> >>> "obvious" way of interacting. So supporting it should be something that
> >> we
> >>> consider if the users of such systems want the option.
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Jordan Zimmerman <
> >>> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> REST has issues for end users. They will still have to write clients
> >> and
> >>>> do a lot of extra work. REST support is good in most languages but
> >> having
> >>>> native support is superior. That’s why I choose Thrift for the
> >> CuratorRPC
> >>>> Proxy.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Jordan
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On April 10, 2015 at 9:32:47 PM, Michi Mutsuzaki (
> >> [email protected])
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Yeah it's quite painful to manage another set of processes just for
> >>>> proxying requests. I'd definitely use this if I can run it embedded in
> >>>> the ZooKeeper process. I'm very excited about the idea of being able
> >>>> to use curl to look at what's in ZooKeeper :)
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>> Here's the spec and readme from contrib/rest:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/zookeeper/trunk/src/contrib/rest/SPEC.txt?view=markup
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/zookeeper/trunk/src/contrib/rest/README.txt?view=markup
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The current implementation is a standalone proxy. It's not embedded
> >> in
> >>> zk
> >>>>> itself. That might be part of the reason.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patrick
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Camille Fournier <
> >> [email protected]>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Forgive me for not reading the code, can you share in more detail
> >> what
> >>>> the
> >>>>>> existing REST proxy provides? I'm curious why people are jumping to
> >>> use
> >>>>>> etcd because of ease of use w/http access if we already have
> >> something
> >>>> that
> >>>>>> works?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> There's the REST work in contrib. Both Andrei and I worked on that
> >>> - I
> >>>>>> did
> >>>>>>> the basic support and Andrei added sessions and heartbeating among
> >>>> other
> >>>>>>> improvements.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Now that 3.5 has embedded Jetty it should be much simpler to run
> >>> REST
> >>>> as
> >>>>>>> part of the ZK service itself. When the original proxy work was
> >> done
> >>>>>> Jetty
> >>>>>>> was not yet part of ZK.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Patrick
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Jordan Zimmerman <
> >>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Since Curator is now Apache and I'm no longer at Netflix, I don't
> >>>> follow
> >>>>>>>> Netflix messages very much. Sorry about that.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> -Jordan
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On April 9, 2015 at 12:15:02 PM, Camille Fournier (
> >>>> [email protected])
> >>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks Jordan! I actually asked on Twitter whether Netflix had
> >>>> anything
> >>>>>>>> but
> >>>>>>>> didn't get a clear answer.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Jordan Zimmerman <
> >>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> FYI
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Curator now has a Thrift-based proxy that has all the ZK APIs
> >>>> exposed
> >>>>>> as
> >>>>>>>>> well as Curator's added APIs and recipes:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> http://curator.apache.org/curator-x-rpc/index.html
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> -Jordan
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On April 8, 2015 at 2:09:33 PM, Camille Fournier (
> >>>> [email protected])
> >>>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> All,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I've been doing a bit of research on etcd as part of work for
> >> an
> >>>>>>>> upcoming
> >>>>>>>>> talk, and it has gotten me thinking about what it would take to
> >>>> create
> >>>>>>>> an
> >>>>>>>>> http version of ZK for certain operations. For many operations
> >>> you
> >>>>>> could
> >>>>>>>>> put an http proxy in front of ZK to translate, even
> >> implementing
> >>>> the
> >>>>>>>>> "long-poll-style" watch operation to some extent. But it would
> >> be
> >>>> very
> >>>>>>>>> hard
> >>>>>>>>> to do a temporary node via a proxy without a lot of proxy
> >>> failover
> >>>>>>>>> complexity.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> As a bit of background, if you want to do an "ephemeral" node
> >> in
> >>>> etcd,
> >>>>>>>> you
> >>>>>>>>> basically create a key with a TTL. Unless the key is updated
> >>> with a
> >>>>>> new
> >>>>>>>>> TTL, the key will auto-expire when the TTL is reached. Now, I
> >>> have
> >>>> a
> >>>>>> lot
> >>>>>>>>> of
> >>>>>>>>> thoughts about this (seems like you have to implement
> >> heartbeats
> >>>> via
> >>>>>>>> http
> >>>>>>>>> to truly mimic ephemeral nodes which may not be as simple as
> >> all
> >>>> this
> >>>>>>>> http
> >>>>>>>>> sounds), but I do think that if there is appetite for easy http
> >>>> access
> >>>>>>>> for
> >>>>>>>>> consensus systems we should at least take the time to think
> >> about
> >>>> what
> >>>>>>>> it
> >>>>>>>>> would take for us to provide this. In particular, I think we'd
> >>>> have to
> >>>>>>>>> make
> >>>>>>>>> it possible to create a node with a TTL that is not tied to a
> >>>>>> particular
> >>>>>>>>> session.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Curious to see if anyone has any thoughts on this. It seems
> >> like
> >>> a
> >>>> bit
> >>>>>>>> of
> >>>>>>>>> a
> >>>>>>>>> shame that ZK, which is a good battle-tested system, is
> >>> frequently
> >>>>>> being
> >>>>>>>>> passed-over these days because of the complexity of clients,
> >> and
> >>>> the
> >>>>>>>> fact
> >>>>>>>>> that it is really pretty damn hard to do a client impl in
> >> certain
> >>>>>>>>> languages
> >>>>>>>>> (Ruby is the notable one I've heard).
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Best,
> >>>>>>>>> C
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
>
>

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