Yes - the watchers aren't simply relay objects, they typically actually process the callback.
Scaling out the watchers in a single client is a laudable aim, but I think this proposal would impact some common use cases. Henry On 18 March 2010 15:47, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > This kind of sounds strange to me. > > My typical idiom is to create a watcher but not retain any references to it > outside the client. It sounds to me like your change will cause my > watchers > to be collected and deactivated when GC happens. > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Dominic Williams < > thedwilli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > The current ZooKeeper client holds strong references to Watcher objects. > I > > want to change the client so it only holds weak references. Feedback > > please. > -- Henry Robinson Software Engineer Cloudera 415-994-6679
