Github user hanm commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/590#discussion_r219642002
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src/java/main/org/apache/zookeeper/server/watch/IWatchManager.java ---
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+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.zookeeper.server.watch;
+
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
+
+import org.apache.zookeeper.Watcher;
+import org.apache.zookeeper.Watcher.Event.EventType;
+import org.apache.zookeeper.server.ServerCnxn;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public interface IWatchManager {
+
+ /**
+ * Add watch to specific path.
+ *
+ * @param path znode path
+ * @param watcher watcher object reference
+ *
+ * @return true if the watcher added is not already present
+ */
+ public boolean addWatch(String path, Watcher watcher);
+
+ /**
+ * Checks the specified watcher exists for the given path
+ *
+ * @param path znode path
+ * @param watcher watcher object reference
+ *
+ * @return true if the watcher exists, false otherwise
+ */
+ public boolean containsWatcher(String path, Watcher watcher);
+
+ /**
+ * Removes the specified watcher for the given path
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nit: missing full stop at end of sentence.
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