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[DocDB] Support a flag to ListMasterRaftPeers to fail if not called on the leader

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#23,863 opened on Sep 10, 2024

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Description

Jira Link: DB-12770

Description

When this new flag is set, a non-leader master processing this call should return NOT_THE_LEADER

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kind/enhancement

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Research direction
Examine the ListMasterRaftPeers RPC handler in the Raft consensus implementation to add a flag that checks if the current node is the leader; if not, return NOT THE LEADER error.
Tech stack
c
Domain
backenddatabase
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
CRaftDistributed Systems
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30