client fails if it can't register a session?

[ongardie]

The Copycat internals doc says:

If the registration fails, the client attempts to connect to another random server and register a new session again. In the event that the client fails to register a session with any server, the client fails and must be restarted.

Why give up? What if there was just a temporary network outage? How bad is it to restart a client (is that a manual or automatic thing)?

[kuujo]

You're right.

Actually, @madjam suggested the same thing a while back. The result was a ConnectionStrategy and a few provided ConnectionStrategies. If an attempt to register a session fails on all servers known to the client, the strategy determines how to handle that. The same is true of lost sessions.

I'll file this in the docs repo.

[kuujo]

atomix/atomix.github.io#4