Chris Pennello created KAFKA-3601: ------------------------------------- Summary: fail fast when newer client connecting to older server Key: KAFKA-3601 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3601 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Components: consumer Reporter: Chris Pennello Assignee: Neha Narkhede
I know that connecting with a newer client to an older server is forbidden, but I would like to suggest that the behavior be that it predictably fail noisily, explicitly, and with specific detail indicating why the failure occurred. As-is, trying to connect to a v0.8.1.1 cluster with a v0.9.1 client yields a hang when trying to get a coordinator metadata update. (This may be related to KAFKA-1894. I certainly did note {{poll(Long.MAX_VALUE)}} and wept many tears. At least we could include a TODO-commented constant in the code with a non-forever, timeout, right?) {noformat} java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE at sun.nio.ch.EPollArrayWrapper.epollWait(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.EPollArrayWrapper.poll(EPollArrayWrapper.java:269) at sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorImpl.doSelect(EPollSelectorImpl.java:93) at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.lockAndDoSelect(SelectorImpl.java:86) - locked <1c8cadab> (a sun.nio.ch.Util$2) - locked <2324ec49> (a java.util.Collections$UnmodifiableSet) - locked <3f3f5e0b> (a sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorImpl) at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.select(SelectorImpl.java:97) at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.select(Selector.java:425) at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.poll(Selector.java:254) at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:256) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.clientPoll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:320) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:213) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:193) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.awaitMetadataUpdate(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:134) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.ensureCoordinatorKnown(AbstractCoordinator.java:184) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.pollOnce(KafkaConsumer.java:886) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.poll(KafkaConsumer.java:853) ... my code that calls poll... {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)