Thanks Rakesh. I will have to something like that, but I am quite concerned 
about the performance issues. 

BTW, are you aware if this renaming functionality is planned for future 
releases? 

Thanks
Mudit

On 16 Jun 2014, at 04:30 pm, Rakesh R <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Mudit,
> 
> Renaming is not possible.
> 
> Secondly, do you mean all these entries are at same level, under /map_current 
> znode? 
> I'd prefer multiple levels instead of having too many direct children of a 
> single znode. ZOOKEEPER-1162 is one such example case study of too many 
> children.
> 
> /map_current/entry1
> /map_current/entry2
> ...
> /map_current/entryn
> 
> 
> I think, JZ is suggesting the following way:
> 
> Step1) Get all the children of /map_current // first, get all the 
> children(number of op depends on the levels)
> 
> Step2) Prepare list of transactions and submit to the server   //second op
>       - create /map_frozen/entry1....create /map_frozen/entryn. Ops should be 
> ordered like, create parent to child.
>       - delete /map_current/entry1...delete /map_current/entryn. Delete in 
> reverse way from child to parent.
> 
> Multi send these ops as a single request, but if we have millions of ops in a 
> single req it can make the request too heavy. I haven't tested though.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I'm thinking an alternate approach to avoid the bulk delete and creation. 
> Does this work for you?
> 
> /writer/my_current1   -> Clients will always look here and get the 'current 
> writer' node. Now he can create entries as follows.
> 
> /my_current1/my_entry1..../my_current1/my_entryn
> 
> Now I wanted to frozen /my_current1. Just delete my_current1 from 
> /writer/my_current1 and create new writer znode /writer/my_current2. 
> Now clients will see /writer/my_current2 and write entries to this.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Rakesh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mudit Verma [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 16 June 2014 19:40
> To: Jordan Zimmerman
> Cc: Camille Fournier; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: renaming a znode
> 
> I just realised that we can not even delete a parent node, if it has 
> children.  :( 
> 
> 
> On 16 Jun 2014, at 03:43 pm, Mudit Verma <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> problem is, it is going to be a very very costly operation (using multi 
>> transactions). A map may contain millions of entries. I first need to get 
>> the data of all these entries, delete them and create them again under 
>> different parent name. 
>> 
>> If we have a rename option, all I need to do is just rename the parent 
>> znode. 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Mudit
>> On 16 Jun 2014, at 03:42 pm, Jordan Zimmerman <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yeah
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: Camille Fournier [email protected]
>>> Reply: [email protected] [email protected]
>>> Date: June 16, 2014 at 8:42:19 AM
>>> To: [email protected] [email protected]
>>> Cc: Mudit Verma [email protected]
>>> Subject:  Re: renaming a znode
>>> 
>>>> Just to clarify you mean the multi API? 
>>>> C
>>>> On Jun 16, 2014 9:40 AM, "Jordan Zimmerman" 
>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote: 
>>>> 
>>>>> You could use the transaction api to create a new node and delete 
>>>>> the old node.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -JZ
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: Mudit Verma [email protected]
>>>>> Reply: [email protected] [email protected]
>>>>> Date: June 16, 2014 at 8:38:11 AM
>>>>> To: [email protected] [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: renaming a znode
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello People,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry for asking many questions these days. :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am wondering if it is possible to rename a znode? I am building 
>>>>> a distributed map on top of zookeeper for special needs. From time 
>>>>> to time, I need to freeze the map without restricting write access to the 
>>>>> map.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I plan to do it by maintaining two maps: 
>>>>> 
>>>>> map_current
>>>>> map_frozen
>>>>> 
>>>>> all the map entries are maintained as separate children znodes 
>>>>> where key is the name of the child node and value is the value 
>>>>> stored on the child node ..
>>>>> for example /map_current/entry1(kv)
>>>>> /map_current/entry2(kv)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now at some point of time, I need to iterate the map while still 
>>>>> allowing write access by other clients. While I iterate, I don't 
>>>>> want other clients to see these entries. Once I process map_frozen 
>>>>> entries I will delete them (I don't need them anymore) by just deleting 
>>>>> the parent node.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I plan to rename existing map from map_current to map_frozen and 
>>>>> create new map as map_current with empty data for further writes. 
>>>>> Other clients will continue to write new entries in map_current .. so on 
>>>>> so forth ..
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any suggestions on how can I do it efficiently. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Mudit
>> 
> 

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