[ZOOKEEPER-627] zkpython arbitrarily restricts the size of a 'get' to 512 bytes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.3.0
• Component/s: contrib-bindings
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: fix to remove restrictions on get in the zkpython library.
• Assignee: Henry Robinson
• Reporter: Henry Robinson
• Created: 16/Dec/09 00:45
• Updated: 26/Mar/10 17:25
• Resolved: 16/Dec/09 23:28

Description

Reported on the list:

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I'm working on using ZooKeeper for an internal application at Digg. I've been using the zkpython package and I just noticed that the data I was receiving from a zookeeper.get() call was being truncated. After some quick digging I found that zookeeper.c limits the data returned to 512 characters (see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/zookeeper/tags/release-3.2.2/src/contrib/zkpython/src/c/zookeeper.c?view=markup line 855).

Is there a reason for this? The only information regarding node size that I've read is that it should not exceed 1MB so this limit seems a bit arbitrary and restrictive.

Thanks for the great work!

Rich"