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| author |  yang-g <yangg@google.com> | 2015-08-10 23:47:07 -0700 |
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| committer | yang-g <yangg@google.com> | 2015-08-10 23:47:07 -0700 |
| commit | bc435e7ee99c37d8ffcad15c957dc75c947c9e7b (patch) | |
| tree | affcc0db3bdb61a8dc1e3a857c5b88d52ddcb444 /doc/health-checking.md | |
| parent | 481b016e2e4a90875230952d5b95ccdd2538962e (diff) | |
recommend to require empty service name
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/health-checking.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/health-checking.md b/doc/health-checking.md index fb6566577c..0b3f9c6a03 100644 --- a/doc/health-checking.md +++ b/doc/health-checking.md @@ -58,11 +58,12 @@ a response must be sent back with an `OK` status and the status field should be set to `SERVING` or `NOT_SERVING` accordingly. If the service name is not registered, the server returns a `NOT_FOUND` GRPC status. -It is recommended that the server use an empty string as the key for server’s -health status as a whole. The server can just do exact matching of the -service name support any kind of wildcard matching. However, the service owner -has the freedom to implement more complicated matching semantics that both the -client and server agree upon. +The server should use an empty string as the key for server’s +overall health status, so that a client not interested in a specific service can +query the server's status with an empty request. The server can just do exact +matching of the service name without support of any kind of wildcard matching. +However, the service owner has the freedom to implement more complicated +matching semantics that both the client and server agree upon. A client can declare the server as unhealthy if the rpc is not finished after some amount of time. The client should be able to handle the case where server |