A. Sophie Blee-Goldman created KAFKA-18190: ----------------------------------------------
Summary: TopologyTestDriver time is not synchronized with test topics Key: KAFKA-18190 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-18190 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: streams Reporter: A. Sophie Blee-Goldman If a user does not provide explicit timestamps for records piped into the TTD via a TestInputTopic, the test topic will inject a timestamp based on its own internal clock. A user can opt to specify a starting time and an auto-advance when creating the TestInputTopic, in which case the timestamp will advance from the starting point after each piped record. However, a user can also opt to create the TestInputTopic without a start timestamp or auto-advance, in which case the start timestamp is initialized to that of the TTD (see [https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/17702|[https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/17702])] and the auto-advance is set to 0. Instead of fixing the auto-advance to 0 and therefore using the same timestamp for every record, if would make more sense for the TestInputTopic to synchronize with the internal clock of the TTD. It's confusing to users that the TopologyTestDriver#advanceWallClockTime API only advances time for the driver itself, but none of the topics that were created for it. So in the case where the user doesn't specify a start timestamp or auto-advance, we should not only set the start timestamp to be equal to that of the driver's internal clock, but also use the driver's current time for records that are piped into the TestInputTopic without an explicit timestamp -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)