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From: Patrick Hunt <phunt@apache.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:57:23 -0700
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Subject: Re: Forcing DISCONNECTED event?
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:41 AM, JL <julio.lopez@lycos.com> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2012, JL <julio.lopez@lycos.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Patrick.
>
>> This is the c client? (In java I know we have a zk subclass that provide=
s this.)
>
> This is Java. =A0Could you point me to the ZK subclass that provides this=
 functionality? =A0I may or may not be able to use it without tearing thing=
s apart too much as I am using ZK through Curator.
>

org.apache.zookeeper.TestableZooKeeper.testableConnloss()

>> Perhaps an easier way would be to simulate Server failure - =A0e.g. star=
t a quroum of 3 servers, Have your client connect, then shutdown the server=
 that the client connected to. The client will be disconnected and reconnec=
t to one of the remaining 2 servers.
>
> The 3-server quorom approach seems like the way to go for us, as we can e=
asily set up a ZK cluster for testing (thanks again to curator-test). =A0I'=
ll give that a try.
>

That's what we often do in zk testing itself. It better simulates what
happens in the real world. Curator is the bees knees.

>
> Thanks for the quick response,

NP. Regards.

Patrick