This file notes feature differences and bugfixes contained between releases.
- True fork safety! The
zookeeperat 1.1.0 is finally fork-safe. You can now use ZK in whatever forking library you want. Just remember to call#reopenon your client instance in the child process before attempting any opersations.
- Added a new
:ignoreoption for convenience when you don't care if an operation fails. In the case of a failure, the method will return nil instead of raising an exception. This option works forchildren,create,delete,get,get_acl,set, andset_acl.statwill ignore the option (because it doesn't care about the state of a node).
# so instead of having to do:
begin
zk.delete('/some/path')
rescue ZK::Exceptions;:NoNode
end
# you can do
zk.delete('/some/path', :ignore => :no_node)
- MASSIVE fork/parent/child test around event delivery and much greater stability expected for linux (with the zookeeper-1.0.3 gem). Again, please see the documentation on the wiki about proper fork procedure.
- fix a bug where a forked client would not have its 'outstanding watches' cleared, so some events would never be delivered
Phusion Passenger and Unicorn users are encouraged to upgrade!
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fork(): ZK should now work reliably after a fork() if you call
reopen()ASAP in the child process (before continuing any ZK work). Additionally, your event-handler (blocks set up withzk.register) will still work in the child. You will have to make calls likezk.stat(path, :watch => true)to tell ZooKeeper to notify you of events (as the child will have a new session), but everything should work. -
See the fork-handling documentation on the wiki.
You are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to go and look at the CHANGELOG from the zookeeper 1.0.0 release
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NOTICE: This release uses the 1.0 release of the zookeeper gem, which has had a MAJOR REFACTORING of its namespaces. Included in that zookeeper release is a compatibility layer that should ease the transition, but any references to Zookeeper* heirarchy should be changed.
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Refactoring related to the zokeeper gem, use all the new names internally now.
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Create a new Subscription class that will be used as the basis for all subscription-type things.
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Add new Locker features!
LockerBase#assert!- will raise an exception if the lock is not held. This check is not only for local in-memory "are we locked?" state, but will check the connection state and re-run the algorithmic tests that determine if a given Locker implementation actually has the lock.LockerBase#acquirable?- an advisory method that checks if any condition would prevent the receiver from acquiring the lock.
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Deprecation of the
lock!andunlock!methods. These may change to be exception-raising in a future relase, so document and refactor thatlockandunlockare the way to go. -
Fixed a race condition in
event_catcher_spec.rbthat would cause 100% cpu usage and hang.
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Documentation for Locker and ilk
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Documentation cleanup
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Fixes for Locker tests so that we can run specs against all supported ruby implementations on travis (relies on in-process zookeeper server in the zk-server-1.0.1 gem)
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Support for 1.8.7 will be continued
(forgot to put this here, put it in the readme though)
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NEW! Thread-per-Callback event delivery model! Read all about it!. Provides a simple, sane way to increase the concurrency in your ZK-based app while maintaining the ordering guarantees ZooKeeper makes. Each callback can perform whatever work it needs to without blocking other callbacks from receiving events. Inspired by Celluloid's actor model.
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Use the zk-server gem to run a standalone ZooKeeper server for tests (
rake SPAWN_ZOOKEEPER=1). Makes live-fire testing of any project that uses ZK easy to run anywhere!
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Threaded client (the default one) will now automatically reconnect (i.e.
reopen()) if aSESSION_EXPIREDorAUTH_FAILEDevent is received. Thanks to @eric for pointing out the nose-on-your-face obviousness and importance of this. If users want to handle these events themselves, and not automatically reopen, you can pass:reconnect => falseto the constructor. -
allow for both :sequence and :sequential arguments to create, because I always forget which one is the "right one"
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add zk.register(:all) to recevie node updates for all nodes (i.e. not filtered on path)
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add 'interest' feature to zk.register, now you can indicate what kind of events should be delivered to the given block (previously you had to do that filtering inside the block). The default behavior is still the same, if no 'interest' is given, then all event types for the given path will be delivered to that block.
zk.register('/path', :created) do |event| # event.node_created? will always be true end
zk.register('/path', [:created, :changed]) do |event| # (event.node_created? or event.node_changed?) will always be true end
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create now allows you to pass a path and options, instead of requiring the blank string
zk.create('/path', '', :sequential => true)
zk.create('/path', :sequential => true)
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fix for shutdown: close! called from threadpool will do the right thing
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Chroot users rejoice! By default, ZK.new will create a chrooted path for you.
ZK.new('localhost:2181/path', :chroot => :create) # the default, create the path before returning connection
ZK.new('localhost:2181/path', :chroot => :check) # make sure the chroot exists, raise if not
ZK.new('localhost:2181/path', :chroot => :do_nothing) # old default behavior
ZK.new('localhost:2181', :chroot => '/path') # equivalent to 'localhost:2181/path', :chroot => :create
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Most of the event functionality used is now in a ZK::Event module. This is still mixed into the underlying slyphon-zookeeper class, but now all of the important and relevant methods are documented, and Event appears as a first-class citizen.
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Support for 1.8.7 WILL BE DROPPED in v1.1. You've been warned.
The "Don't forget to update the RELEASES file before pushing a new release" release
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Fix a fairly bad bug in event de-duplication (diff: http://is.gd/a1iKNc)
This is fairly edge-case-y but could bite someone. If you'd set a watch when doing a get that failed because the node didn't exist, any subsequent attempts to set a watch would fail silently, because the client thought that the watch had already been set.
We now wrap the operation in the setup_watcher! method, which rolls back the record-keeping of what watches have already been set for what nodes if an exception is raised.
This change has the side-effect that certain operations (get,stat,exists?,children) will block event delivery until completion, because they need to have a consistent idea about what events are pending, and which have been delivered. This also means that calling these methods represent a synchronization point between user threads (these operations can only occur serially, not simultaneously).
- Default threadpool size has been changed from 5 to 1. This should only affect people who are using the Election code.
ZK::Client::Base#registerdelegates to itsevent_handlerfor convenience (so you can writezk.registerinstead ofzk.event_handler.register, which always irked me)ZK::Client::Base#event_dispatch_thread?added to more easily allow users to tell if they're currently in the event thread (and possibly make decisions about the safety of their actions). This is now used byblock_until_node_deletedin the Unixisms module, and prevents a situation where the user could deadlock event delivery.- Fixed issue 9, where using a Locker in the main thread would never awaken if the connection was dropped or interrupted. Now a
ZK::Exceptions::InterruptedSessionexception (or mixee) will be thrown to alert the caller that something bad happened. ZK::Find.findnow returns the results in sorted order.- Added documentation explaining the Pool class, reasons for using it, reasons why you shouldn't (added complexities around watchers and events).
- Began work on an experimental Multiplexed client, that would allow multithreaded clients to more effectively share a single connection by making all requests asynchronous behind the scenes, and using a queue to provide a synchronous (blocking) API.