samuel
Chroot support?
A feature supported by some other Zookeeper clients, including the canonical JVM one, is chroot support. This allows you to create (or move) a connection that's relative to some fixed path prefix, for example "/apps/myapp", Chrooting is discussed in the Zookeeper admin guide here:
https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.2.2/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions
Here's the chroot interface for the canonical Java client:
https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.3.3/api/org/apache/zookeeper/ZooKeeper.html#ZooKeeper(java.lang.String, int, org.apache.zookeeper.Watcher)
What do you think about chroot support in this client?
It would be tricky to support something like this against the current interface
of the Go client because we expect a []string of server addrs, instead of the
single connection string expected by the Java client. But perhaps we could
figure something out. An alternative would be a Chroot(path string) *Conn
method on *Conn that returned a new connection chrooted to the given
path.
If you're interested in supporting chrooting, I'd consider trying to write a patch for it.
(BTW, thanks for writing and sharing this code!)
We also like the chroot feature very much, but it seems that the maintainer didn't want to accept any pr. Finally, we wrap the go-zookeeper connection with chroot. https://github.com/git-hulk/zk_wrapper
