Hi Mahadev, That is interesting. All I need to do is hold the connection for the required time of a session that created an ephemeral node.
Zookeeper is an interesting tool. Thanks again, Martin On 24 February 2010 17:00, Mahadev Konar <maha...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Hi Martin, > There isnt an inherent model for leases in the zookeeper library itself. > To implement leases you will have to implement them at your application > side > with timeouts triggers (lease triggers) leading to session close at the > client. > > > Thanks > mahadev > > > On 2/24/10 3:40 AM, "Martin Waite" <waite....@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a good model for implementing leases in Zookeeper ? > > > > What I want to achieve is for a client to create a lock, and for that > lock > > to disappear two minutes later - regardless of whether the client is > still > > connected to zk. Like ephemeral nodes - but with a time delay. > > > > regards, > > Martin > >