Bug#690192: python-zookeeper truncates paths with more than 255 characters.

[James Page]

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Hi Paul

On 11/10/12 01:43, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> There appears to be a problem with python-zookeeper's handling of
> nodes with that have a total path length that is greater than 255
> characters. It can be demonstrated with this simple test program,
> which creates a node with path length of 302 characters. The return
> value from zookeeper.create should be exactly the same, in this
> case, but instead, it is trucated at 255 characters:

Digging into the python source code reveals that the buffer used to
hold the path returned from zookeeper is only 256 bytes; the zookeeper
C code truncates the path to fit the buffer resulting in the shortened
return path.

I agree that this does appear to be odd behaviour - I'll dig a bit deeper.


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James Page
Ubuntu Core Developer
Debian Maintainer
james.page at ubuntu.com
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