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NAME

ZooKeeper - Perl bindings for Apache ZooKeeper

SYNOPSIS

my $zk = ZooKeeper->new(hosts => 'localhost:2181');

my $cv = AE::cv;
my @children = $zk->get_children('/', watcher => sub { my $event = shift; $cv->send($event) });
my $child_event = $cv->recv;

DESCRIPTION

ZooKeeper is a perl interface to the Apache ZooKeeper C client library.

How is this different from Net::ZooKeeper?

ZooKeeper is written for asynchronous programming.

To support asynchronous programs, watchers were implemented as code refs, which a ZooKeeper::Dispatcher asynchronously invokes with ZooKeeper event data. Conversely, Net::ZooKeeper used Net::ZooKeeper::Watch classes, which users must interact with using the wait method(which blocks).

ZooKeeper data is represented as normal perl data types.

ZooKeeper event and stat data are simply hashrefs and arrayrefs. Net::ZooKeeper instead provides specific perl classes for interacting with this data.

ZooKeeper leverages perl exception handling.

Instead of returning the C error codes, as Net::ZooKeeper does, ZooKeeper throws ZooKeeper::Error exceptions for unexpected return codes.

Data Types

acl

Acls are represented as an arrayrefs of hashrefs, where each hashref includes an id, scheme, and permissions. Permissions flags can be imported from the ZooKeeper::Constants package.

For instance, ZOO_READ_ACL_UNSAFE would be represented as:

[{id => 'anyone', scheme => 'world', perms => ZOO_PERM_READ}]
event

A hashref of attributes for a watcher event. Includes the type of event(a ZooKeeper::Constants event), connection state(a ZooKeeper::Constants state) and the path of the node triggering the event.

{
    path  => '/child',
    state => ZOO_CONNECTED_STATE,
    type  => ZOO_CHILD_EVENT,
}
stat

A hashref of fields from a C Stat struct.

{
    aversion       => 0,
    ctime          => 0,
    cversion       => 0,
    czxid          => 0,
    ephemeralOwner => 0,
    dataLength     => 0,
    mtime          => 0,
    mzxid          => 0,
    numChildren    => 2,
    pzxid          => 2334,
    version        => 0,
}

Dispatchers

ZooKeeper uses ZooKeeper::Dispatchers for communicating with callbacks registered by the C library. These callbacks are executed in separate POSIX threads, which write event data to a ZooKeeper::Channel and notify the dispatcher that an event is ready to be processed. How this notification occurs, and how perl callbacks are invoked, is what differentiates the types of dispatchers.

AnyEvent

ZooKeeper writes to a Unix pipe with an attached AnyEvent I/O watcher. This means that perl callbacks for watchers will be executed by the AnyEvent event loop.

Interrupt

ZooKeeper uses Async::Interrupt callbacks. This means the perl interpreter will be safely interrupted(waits for the current op to finish) in order to execute the corresponding perl callback. See Async::Interrupt for more details on how callbacks are executed. Be aware that this does not interrupt system calls(such as select) and XS code. This means if your code is blocking on a select(such as during an AnyEvent recv), the interrupt callback will not execute until the call has finished.

ATTRIBUTES

hosts

A comma separated list of ZooKeeper server hostnames and ports.

'localhost:2181'
'zoo1.domain:2181,zoo2.domain:2181'

timeout

The session timout used for the ZooKeeper connection.

watcher

A subroutine reference to be called by a default watcher for ZooKeeper session events.

authentication

An arrayref used for authenticating with ZooKeeper. This will be passed as an array to add_auth.

[$scheme, $credentials, %extra]

buffer_length

The default length of the buffer used for retrieving ZooKeeper data and paths. Defaults to 2048 bytes.

client_id

The client_id for a ZooKeeper session. Can be set during construction to resume a previous session.

dispatcher

The implementation of ZooKeeper::Dispatcher to be used. Defaults to AnyEvent.

Valid types include:

AnyEvent
Interrupt

ignore_session_events

If set to false, all watchers will be triggered for session events, such as disconnecting and reconnecting to the ZooKeeper server. This means that watchers can be triggered multiple times, until the watcher event is triggered.

The default value is true, which will only trigger watchers once, for the watcher event.

METHODS

new

Instantiate a new ZooKeeper connection.

my $zk = ZooKeeper->new(%args)

    %args
        REQUIRED hosts
        OPTIONAL authentication
        OPTIONAL buffer_length
        OPTIONAL dispatcher
        OPTIONAL timeout
        OPTIONAL watcher

state

Get the state of the ZooKeeper connection. Returns a state enum from ZooKeeper::Constants.

wait

Calls wait on the underlying ZooKeeper::Dispatcher.

Synchronously dispatch one event. Returns the event hashref the watcher was called with. Can optionally be passed a timeout(specified in seconds), which will cause wait to return undef if it does not complete in the specified time.

my $event = $zk->wait($seconds)

OPTIONAL $seconds

create

Create a new node with the given path and data. Returns the path for the newly created node on succes. Otherwise a ZooKeeper::Error is thrown.

my $created_path = $zk->create($requested_path, %extra);

    REQUIRED $requested_path

    OPTIONAL %extra
        acl
        buffer_length
        persistent
        sequential
        value

add_auth

Add authentication credentials for the session. Will automatically be invoked if the authentication attribute was set during construction. If the digest scheme is used, and encoded is not set, then credentials will be automatically hashed with Digest::SHA::sha1_base64.

A ZooKeeper::Error will be thrown if the request could not be made. To determine success or failure authenticating, a watcher must be passed.

$zk->add_auth($scheme, $credentials, %extra)

    REQUIRED $scheme
    REQUIRED $credentials

    OPTIONAL %extra
        watcher
        encoded

delete

Delete a node at the given path. Throws a ZooKeeper::Error if the delete was unsuccessful.

$zk->delete($path, %extra)

    REQUIRED $path

    OPTIONAL %extra
        version

exists

Check whether a node exists at the given path, and optionally set a watcher for when the node is created or deleted. On success, returns a stat hashref for the node. Otherwise returns undef.

my $stat = $zk->exists($path, %extra)

    REQUIRED $path

    OPTIONAL %extra
        watcher

get_children

Get the children stored directly under the given path. Optionally set a watcher for when a child is created or deleted. Returns an array of child path names.

my @child_paths = $zk->get_children($path, %extra)

    REQUIRED $path

    OPTIONAL %extra
        watcher

get

Retrieve data stored at the given path. Optionally set a watcher for when the data is changed. In list context, the data and stat hashref of the node is returned. Otherwise just the data is returned.

my $data          = $zk->get($path, %extra)
my ($data, $stat) = $zk->get($path, %extra)

    REQUIRED $path

    OPTIONAL %extra
        watcher
        buffer_length

set

Set data at the given path. On succes, returns a stat hashref of the node. Otherwise a ZooKeeper::Error is thrown.

my $stat = $zk->set($path => $value, %extra)

    REQUIRED $path
    REQUIRED $value

    OPTIONAL %extra
        version

get_acl

Get ACLs for the given node. Returns an ACLs arrayref on success, otherwise throws a ZooKeeper::Error

my $acl = $zk->get_acl($path)

    REQUIRED $path

set_acl

Set ACls for a node at the given path. Throws a ZooKeeper::Error on failure.

$zk->set_acl($path => $acl, %extra)

    REQUIRED $path
    REQUIRED $acl

    OPTIONAL %extra
        version

CAVEATS

Forking

The underlying C library uses POSIX threads. This means that ZooKeeper is not fork safe. Only exec and POSIX::_exit can be guaranteed to work safely in the child process.

Signals

Many ZooKeeper recipes(such as in the examples directory), rely on clients properly shutting down to delete ephemeral nodes. Otherwise the ZooKeeper server will wait for the entire duration of the timeout specified by the session, before cleaning up. If you are expecting your program to handle signals(such as SIGINT), make sure the program is properly catching them and exiting. See the examples for more information.

SEE ALSO

The Apache ZooKeeper project's home page at http://zookeeper.apache.org/ provides a wealth of detail on how to develop applications using ZooKeeper.

AUTHOR

Mark Flickinger <maf@cpan.org>

LICENSE

This software is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.