[RATIS-267] Add a unique identifier for a ratis ring during initialization/add peers to identify a unique ratis ring

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: raft-group
• Assignee: Mukul Kumar Singh
• Reporter: Mukul Kumar Singh
• Created: 08/Jul/18 06:46
• Updated: 30/Nov/18 23:22
• Resolved: 30/Nov/18 23:22

Description

Ratis supports methods like re-initialize and addPeers to change the state of the Ratis Ring.

This jira proposes to add a new variable to uniquely identify a ratis ring.
This id (UUID) should be changed everytime the state of ratis ring changes.