Support for active failover

[EliyaCohen]

Hey, It would be nice to see support for interacting with active failover arangodb deployments.

Currently, when querying active failover deployments there is no way to determine which of the servers is the leader.

I suggest adding the functionality to automatically determine who the leader and in case the current leader fails, move on to the next leader.

[joowani]

Hi @EliyaCohen,

I'll add this in the todo list for next release.

[EliyaCohen]

Thanks a lot! if you have implementation ideas I'd love to contribute the code.

[bryaninbi]

Is this issue still open / is there still no support for active-failover? I have implemented support that is deployed in a production scenario currently that I would happily contribute if there is interest, but it's probably terrible code. It does work, it's not elegant, and I was just getting back into python after a ten year hiatus.

[joowani]

Hi @bryaninbi,

Please feel free to share your code. Even if it's not polished it might help get me started. Thanks.

[joowani]

Discussions on how to implement active failover: https://github.com/arangodb/arangodb/issues/13860

[franciszac-dlc]

Hey, is this issue still in the roadmap for implementation? We ran across this roadbump and we plan on working around it for our own use case, however I might be willing to contribute in my free time once I have more time in my hands

[apetenchea]

Hello! While this issue is indeed on our radar, it's not in our immediate roadmap. However, contributions are always welcome, if you can find the time and inclination to do so. Thanks for reaching out and for considering contributing!

[aMahanna]

Closing this issue as Active Failover has been deprecated in favour of using cluster deployments: https://docs.arangodb.com/stable/release-notes/deprecated-and-removed-features/