Store your PEMs in a known path. Or, store a known value in the node.

-JZ

> On Oct 14, 2015, at 5:49 PM, Vikrant Singh <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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> What I  want is to differentiate between "ephemeral nodes" and "persistent 
> ephemeral node". 
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> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Cameron McKenzie <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> You could keep track of which nodes are ephemeral by looking at the stat 
> object passed to the NODE_ADDED event in the TreeCache. Then when you get a 
> NODE_REMOVED event you could check if it's one of your ephemeral nodes?
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Vikrant Singh <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> yes you got it correct... a slight correction. I am trying to find a way 
> where I can make my tree cache event handler aware that "node removed" event 
> is coming from a persistent ephemeral node  and delay any action till the 
> point the node's curator framework gives up on rewriting the node to ZK.
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> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Cameron McKenzie <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> So, if I'm understanding correctly, if your application loses its connection 
> to ZooKeeper (or crashes), then a new instance will be started in its place, 
> and if the original instance reconnects then you don't want it to try and 
> recreate its ephemeral node?
> 
> If that's the case, then I think that you need additional logic beyond what a 
> PersistentEphemeralNode is going to provide you, as you will need to check if 
> the node already exists on reconnection.
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Vikrant Singh <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> yeah I considered that.. but I ended up using tree cache because it gives me 
> more control on the state of tree . I have some custom handlers for 
> add/remove/update events. Same cache is also used for service discovery.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:33 PM, David Kesler <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> There’s also already a Curator service discovery extension library that you 
> can look at:  http://curator.apache.org/curator-x-discovery/index.html 
> <http://curator.apache.org/curator-x-discovery/index.html>.  It’s basically 
> boiling down to the same strategy of sticking an ephemeral node into ZK, but 
> with some additional convenience and functionality built on top of it. 
> 
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> From: Cameron McKenzie [mailto:[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>] 
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 5:05 PM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Persistent Ephemeral Node
> 
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> hey Vikrant,
> 
> Using a persistent ephemeral node just means that your application code 
> doesn't need to worry about handling recreation of the node when it 
> reconnects to ZooKeeper after connection / session loss.
> 
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> If your ephemeral node should always be present whenever your application 
> instance is running, then this would be a good use case for a persistent 
> ephemeral node.
> 
> cheers
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Vikrant Singh <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> I have some basic question on persistent ephemeral node. 
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> Here is some background...
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> We have a zoo keeper based service discovery setup. Each service register 
> itself as a ephemeral node with zookeeper.When a service go down  its 
> ephemeral node is removed from zookeeper and we know that service is down and 
> we provision it again. 
> 
> At present we create plain ephemeral node. I am wondering what benefit/risks 
> we may get if move to persistent ephemeral ones.  I see one problem... using  
> plane ephemeral node we can rely on state of ZK to make a decision like 
> service is down. This is because we are sure that if a node get deleted with 
> zoo keeper it will never comeback from same process. But if moved to 
> "persistent ephemeral" I guess same may not be the case.
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> Please let me know what you think of the same.
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> Also I would like to know what are the best scenario where one should prefer 
> using persistent ephemeral node over ephemeral node. 
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> Thanks,
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> Vikrant
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