> On 29 Aug 2016, at 19:51, Jordan Zimmerman <jor...@jordanzimmerman.com> wrote: > >> On the server side, we already have a mechanism to expire sessions, do we a >> separate scheme to expire TTL nodes or can we use the same mechanism? Does >> it make sense to consider a TTL node as a degenerate case of a session in >> which I have a single ephemeral node? My recollection is that it currently >> uses the container manager instead. > > The TTL implementation I did takes advantage of the Container node feature. A > TTL node is a variation of a container node. It doesn’t require a session > (like any persistent node). >
It doesn't require a session, but the client has no way to create such a TTL node without creating a session first, right? You need the zk handle, which has a session associated, to create a TTL node as I understand it. -Flavio
