Thanks for your kind reply. I tried it in zkCli.sh and I don't get the string back when using "get".
[zk: node4:2181(CONNECTED) 11] create /topdir "this is a string" Created /topdir [zk: node4:2181(CONNECTED) 12] get /topdir "this cZxid = 0x200000008 ctime = Tue May 20 12:47:10 PDT 2014 mZxid = 0x200000008 mtime = Tue May 20 12:47:10 PDT 2014 pZxid = 0x200000008 cversion = 0 dataVersion = 0 aclVersion = 0 ephemeralOwner = 0x0 dataLength = 5 numChildren = 0 The dataLength is showing 5 as the length of the string "this. am I doing something wrong here? Thanks, Yang -- View this message in context: http://zookeeper-user.578899.n2.nabble.com/newbie-question-how-to-set-a-znode-value-to-a-string-this-is-a-string-instead-of-a-single-word-tp7579915p7579920.html Sent from the zookeeper-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
