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Guozhang Wang commented on KAFKA-1475:
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This is a valid point, and it is a little tricky to expose the exceptions from
background threads. That is also why in the new consumer design we are going to
be single threaded.
Since the new consumer is coming in 3 to 4 month, I am wondering if this issue
does not occur often we can focus our effort on making the new consumer into
production instead of patching the old one that is going to be obsoleted
anyways?
> Kafka consumer stops LeaderFinder/FetcherThreads, but application does not
> know
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> Key: KAFKA-1475
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1475
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: clients, consumer
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Environment: linux, rhel 6.4
> Reporter: Hang Qi
> Assignee: Neha Narkhede
> Labels: consumer
>
> We encounter an issue of consumers not consuming messages in production. (
> this consumer has its own consumer group, and just consumes one topic of 3
> partitions.)
> Based on the logs, we have following findings:
> 1. Zookeeper session expires, kafka highlevel consumer detected this event,
> and released old broker parition ownership and re-register consumer.
> 2. Upon creating ephemeral path in Zookeeper, it found that the path still
> exists, and try to read the content of the node.
> 3. After read back the content, it founds the content is same as that it is
> going to write, so it logged as "[ZkClient-EventThread-428-ZK/kafka]
> (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$) -
> /consumers/consumerA/ids/consumerA-1400815740329-5055aeee exists with value {
> "pattern":"static", "subscription":{ "TOPIC": 1},
> "timestamp":"1400846114845", "version":1 } during connection loss; this is
> ok", and doing nothing.
> 4. After that, it throws exception indicated that the cause is
> "org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NoNodeException: KeeperErrorCode =
> NoNode for /consumers/consumerA/ids/consumerA-1400815740329-5055aeee" during
> rebalance.
> 5. After all retries failed, it gave up retry and left the
> LeaderFinderThread, FetcherThread stopped.
> Step 3 looks very weird, checking the code, there is timestamp contains in
> the stored data, it may be caused by Zookeeper issue.
> But what I am wondering is that whether it is possible to let application
> (kafka client users) to know that the underline LeaderFinderThread and
> FetcherThread are stopped, like allowing application to register some
> callback or throws some exception (by invalidate the KafkaStream iterator for
> example)? For me, it is not reasonable for the kafka client to shutdown
> everything and wait for next rebalance, and let application wait on
> iterator.hasNext() without knowing that there is something wrong underline.
> I've read about twiki about kafka 0.9 consumer rewrite, and there is a
> ConsumerRebalanceCallback interface, but I am not sure how long it will take
> to be ready, and how long it will take for us to migrate.
> Please help to look at this issue. Thanks very much!
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