How about using something like this instead? http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/flume/trunk/flume-core/src/main/java/com/cloudera/flume/master/ZooKeeperCounter.java?view=markup
A second option would be to store the offset as the data for the znode (or in the parent), etc... Patrick On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Camille Fournier <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I know this is based on information stored by the server in > the parent node, and is not settable by the user. > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Yuhan Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to create a distributed unique int key with zookeeper sequential >> by: >> String file = zooKeeper.create( folderPath + "/0", new byte[0], >> Ids.OPEN_ACL_UNSAFE, CreateMode.EPHEMERAL_SEQUENTIAL); >> String sequence = file.substring(file.lastIndexOf("/")+1); >> zooKeeper.delete(file, 0); >> int id = Integer.parseInt( sequence ); >> >> It works fine, even though the sequence number may not be adjacent. >> However, I'd like to have the key to start at a certain value, >> say 1000, as the ids under 1000 has been in use. Currently I will have to >> call this function until it generates an id greater than 1000. Is there a >> way in zooKeeper to set the starting value of the created sequence? >> >> Thank you. >> >> Yuhan >> >
