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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:00:42 -0800
Subject: Re: is there a good pattern for leases ?
From: Mahadev Konar <mahadev@yahoo-inc.com>
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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.134@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