Hi Rohan,

>>>>>>>   1. If my session has a default watcher w, and I make a call that sets
another watcher w' for a specific znode, will both w and w' get called if
the znode changes?

Default watcher w will only carry the zookeeper session states Disconnected, 
Expired, SyncConnected, AuthFailed etc events. This Watcher is notified when 
any state change occurs in the client for example, when you successfully 
establish a connection, this watcher will receive a SyncConnected event or if 
the client's session expires will trigger Expired etc. 

w' is specially meant for watching the znode and here the default watcher w 
will not receive notification on znode changes. But he will recieve state 
changes as explained below.

 >>>>>>>2. If my session expires, on reconnect willl both w and w' be notified
of the session expiry or just w?

Here both w and w'  will be notified and sequence will be first disconnect 
event, then expiry event. 


-Rakesh
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From: Rohan Desai [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 1:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Some questions about Watches

I had a couple questions about ZooKeeper watches that weren't immediately
clear from the programmer's guide
   1. If my session has a default watcher w, and I make a call that sets
another watcher w' for a specific znode, will both w and w' get called if
the znode changes?
   2. If my session expires, on reconnect willl both w and w' be notified
of the session expiry or just w?

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