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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:35:32 -0400
From: David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net>
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Subject: Re: Create node with ancestors?
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On 10/05/2010 06:20 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> The ZK "create" method explicitly states in the documentation "If the
> parent node does not exist in the ZooKeeper, a KeeperException with
> error code KeeperException.NoNode will be thrown." (
> (http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/api/org/apache/zookeeper/ZooKeeper.html#create%28java.lang.String,%20byte[],%20java.util.List,%20org.apache.zookeeper.CreateMode%29))
> As a result, there doesn't appear to be any one single method call that
> can create a node, along with any missing parent nodes. This would be an
> incredibly useful API call, though, akin to HDFS' "mkdirs" method call.
> (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#mkdirs%28org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path%29)
>
>
> Anybody know if there's a call like this available somewhere in the ZK API?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DR

I guess that's a no.  :-(

DR