Github user njhill commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/curator/pull/281#discussion_r231356314 --- Diff: curator-recipes/src/main/java/org/apache/curator/framework/recipes/nodes/PersistentNode.java --- @@ -445,7 +445,8 @@ private void createNode() try { String existingPath = nodePath.get(); - String createPath = (existingPath != null && !useProtection) ? existingPath : basePath; + String createPath = existingPath == null || (useProtection && !isSequential(mode)) ? basePath + : (useProtection ? basePath + existingPath.substring(existingPath.length()-10) : existingPath); --- End diff -- Thanks @cammckenzie. I reworked this to use if statements and defined a constant for the 10 number. I couldn't find such a constant defined elsewhere; it's hardcoded in the zookeeper code: https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/blob/master/zookeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/PrepRequestProcessor.java#L662. I also removed the redundant added static `isSequential(CreateMode)` method, didn't notice that this is already a method on the enum.
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