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Patrick Hunt commented on ZOOKEEPER-1412:
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This is a serious issue, although it does have a pretty straightforward
workaround. I'll respin a new 3.3.5 rc that includes a fix for this (I'm
working on it).
> java client watches inconsistently triggered on reconnect
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> Key: ZOOKEEPER-1412
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1412
> Project: ZooKeeper
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: server
> Affects Versions: 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3
> Reporter: Botond Hejj
> Assignee: Patrick Hunt
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 3.3.5, 3.4.4, 3.5.0
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> I've observed an inconsistent behavior in java client watches. The
> inconsistency relates to the behavior after the client reconnects to the
> zookeeper ensemble.
> After the client reconnects to the ensemble only those watches should trigger
> which should have been triggered also if the connections was not lost. This
> means if I watch for changes in node /foo and there is no change there than
> my watch should not be triggered on reconnecting to the ensemble.
> This is not always the case in the java client.
> I've debugged the issues and I could locate the case when the watch is always
> triggered on reconnect. This is consistently happening if I connect to a
> follower in the ensemble and I don't do any operation which goes through the
> leader.
> Looking at the code I see that the client stores the lastzxid and sends that
> with its request. This is 0 on startup and will be updated everytime from the
> server replies. This lastzxid is also sent to the server after reconnect
> together with watches. The server decides which watch to trigger based on
> this lastzxid probably because that should mean the last known state of the
> client. If this lastzxid is 0 than all the watches are triggered.
> I've checked why is this lastzxid 0. I thought it shouldn't be since there
> was already a request to the server to set the watch and in the reply the
> server could have sent back the zxid but it turns out that it sends just 0.
> Looking at the server code I see that for requests which doesn't go through
> the leader the follower server just sends back the same zxid that the client
> sent.
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