You can read more about the naming here: http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkDataModel
Regards, Ganesh Chandrasekaran On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Ganesh Chandrasekaran <[email protected]>wrote: > Anything after the space is used to specify the version number. So you can > only set the value of a znode as a single word or a number afaik. > > Regards, > Ganesh Chandrasekaran > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:49 PM, xytd <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> > >
