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Marshall McMullen commented on ZOOKEEPER-965:
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I've just checked in a change to allow setdata ops to work properly. Previously 
I was using a struct with a union of all the op types. This worked well on C as 
you can specify which field of union to initialize to using extended struct 
initializers. This isn't supported on C++ without special compiler flags so I 
decided that was a bad approach. So I opted for a much simpler solution. Put 
all the necessary arguments into the main op_t structure and provide some 
simple macros that provide simple convenience wrappers to only take the 
arguments appropriate for that op (and in the same order as the non-multi 
version). This provides very simple caller syntax with no added overhead or 
memory allocations.

I also added an entirely new C API test suite that's a port of the tests from 
the Java Client side.

There is still a limitation on C API setdata op in that it can't pass back Stat 
structure results to caller. This is causing two of my new tests to fail so 
that part of the tests are commented out for now.



> Need a multi-update command to allow multiple znodes to be updated safely
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-965
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-965
>             Project: ZooKeeper
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.3
>            Reporter: Ted Dunning
>            Assignee: Ted Dunning
>             Fix For: 3.4.0
>
>         Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-965.patch, ZOOKEEPER-965.patch, 
> ZOOKEEPER-965.patch, ZOOKEEPER-965.patch, ZOOKEEPER-965.patch, 
> ZOOKEEPER-965.patch
>
>
> The basic idea is to have a single method called "multi" that will accept a 
> list of create, delete, update or check objects each of which has a desired 
> version or file state in the case of create.  If all of the version and 
> existence constraints can be satisfied, then all updates will be done 
> atomically.
> Two API styles have been suggested.  One has a list as above and the other 
> style has a "Transaction" that allows builder-like methods to build a set of 
> updates and a commit method to finalize the transaction.  This can trivially 
> be reduced to the first kind of API so the list based API style should be 
> considered the primitive and the builder style should be implemented as 
> syntactic sugar.
> The total size of all the data in all updates and creates in a single 
> transaction should be limited to 1MB.
> Implementation-wise this capability can be done using standard ZK internals.  
> The changes include:
> - update to ZK clients to all the new call
> - additional wire level request
> - on the server, in the code that converts transactions to idempotent form, 
> the code should be slightly extended to convert a list of operations to 
> idempotent form.
> - on the client, a down-rev server that rejects the multi-update should be 
> detected gracefully and an informative exception should be thrown.
> To facilitate shared development, I have established a github repository at 
> https://github.com/tdunning/zookeeper  and am happy to extend committer 
> status to anyone who agrees to donate their code back to Apache.  The final 
> patch will be attached to this bug as normal.

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