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Paths cannot have leading "/" character

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go

Research direction

Start by locating the Zookeeper backend's path-normalization logic and any existing path-related tests. Reproduce the failure with a leading slash, then update the behavior so the issue's standard Zookeeper path form is accepted and add coverage confirming it.

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Description

Hello,

I was working with Traefik and I was having issues with it pulling configuration information from Zookeeper. I narrowed it down to this code (an older version) and discovered that if I had a leading "/" on the path, it would fail. The current code looks to be the same for the normalization of the paths, so the "bug" is still there.

Barring a good reason why this behaviour should remain, I'd like to suggest that the code be updated to allow for a leading "/" to be provided as, at least with zookeeper, is the standard way of referencing paths.

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