improve client testability - allow test client to access connected server
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Key: ZOOKEEPER-544
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-544
Project: Zookeeper
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: c client, java client, tests
Reporter: Patrick Hunt
Fix For: 3.3.0
This came up recently on the user list. If you are developing tests for your zk
client you need to be able to access the server that your
session is currently connected to. The reason is that your test needs to know
which server in the quorum to shutdown in order to
verify you are handling failover correctly. Similar for session expiration
testing.
however we should be careful, we prefer not to expose this to all clients, this
is an implementation detail that we typically
want to hide.
also we should provide this in both the c and java clients
I suspect we should add a protected method on ZooKeeper. This will make a
higher bar (user will have to subclass) for
the user to access this method. In tests it's fine, typically you want a
"TestableZooKeeper" class anyway. In c we unfortunately
have less options, we can just rely on docs for now.
In both cases (c/java) we need to be very very clear in the docs that this is
for testing only and to clearly define semantics.
We should add the following at the same time:
toString() method to ZooKeeper which includes server ip/port, client port, any
other information deemed useful (connection stats like send/recv?)
the java ZooKeeper is missing "deterministic connection order" that the c
client has. this is also useful for testing. again, protected and
clear docs that this is for testing purposes only!
Any other things we should expose?
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