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Jozef Hatala updated ZOOKEEPER-761:
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    Description: 
Since the synchronous calls are 
[known|http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperProgrammers.html#Using+the+C+Client]
 to be unimplemented in the single threaded version of the client library 
libzookeeper_st.so, I believe that it would be helpful towards users of the 
library if that information was also obvious from the header file.

Anecdotally more than one of us here made the mistake of starting by using the 
synchronous calls with the single-threaded library, and we found ourselves 
debugging it.  An early warning would have been greatly appreciated.

1. Could you please add warnings to the doxygen blocks of all synchronous calls 
saying that they are not available in the single-threaded API.  This cannot be 
safely done with {{#ifdef THREADED}}, obviously, because the same header file 
is included whichever client library implementation one is compiling for.

2. Could you please bracket the implementation of all synchronous calls in 
zookeeper.c with {{#ifdef THREADED}} and {{#endif}}, so that those symbols are 
not present in libzookeeper_st.so?

  was:
Since the synchronous calls are 
[http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperProgrammers.html#Using+the+C+Client|known]
 to be unimplemented in the single threaded version of the client library 
libzookeeper_st.so, I believe that it would be helpful towards users of the 
library if that information was also obvious from the header file.

Anecdotally more than one of us here made the mistake of starting by using the 
synchronous calls with the single-threaded library, and we found ourselves 
debugging it.  An early warning would have been greatly appreciated.

1. Could you please add warnings to the doxygen blocks of all synchronous calls 
saying that they are not available in the single-threaded API.  This cannot be 
safely done with {{#ifdef THREADED}}, obviously, because the same header file 
is included whichever client library implementation one is compiling for.

2. Could you please bracket the implementation of all synchronous calls in 
zookeeper.c with {{#ifdef THREADED}} and {{#endif}}, so that those symbols are 
not present in libzookeeper_st.so?


> Remove *synchronous* calls from the *single-threaded* C clieant API, since 
> they are documented not to work
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-761
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-761
>             Project: Zookeeper
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: c client
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.1, 3.2.2
>         Environment: RHEL 4u8 (Linux).  The issue is not OS-specific though.
>            Reporter: Jozef Hatala
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Since the synchronous calls are 
> [known|http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperProgrammers.html#Using+the+C+Client]
>  to be unimplemented in the single threaded version of the client library 
> libzookeeper_st.so, I believe that it would be helpful towards users of the 
> library if that information was also obvious from the header file.
> Anecdotally more than one of us here made the mistake of starting by using 
> the synchronous calls with the single-threaded library, and we found 
> ourselves debugging it.  An early warning would have been greatly appreciated.
> 1. Could you please add warnings to the doxygen blocks of all synchronous 
> calls saying that they are not available in the single-threaded API.  This 
> cannot be safely done with {{#ifdef THREADED}}, obviously, because the same 
> header file is included whichever client library implementation one is 
> compiling for.
> 2. Could you please bracket the implementation of all synchronous calls in 
> zookeeper.c with {{#ifdef THREADED}} and {{#endif}}, so that those symbols 
> are not present in libzookeeper_st.so?

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