GitHub user dguy opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1918
[WIP] allow Processors to write to State Stores during Processor.init() If a Processor writes to a State Store in the init and 0 records are processed before `commit` is called an IllegalStateException is thrown. This is because the `RecordContext` has not been set on `ProcessorContext` and `RecordCollector` calls `context.timestamp()` when it is flushing the records to the changelog. This sets a dummy `RecordContext` with the timestamp set to `System.currentTimeMillis` prior to Processor init. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dguy/kafka processor-init Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1918.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1918 ---- commit 9e5c583a9bdbac66644ce9dd050109e0d9d2f21d Author: Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> Date: 2016-09-27T14:09:49Z allow Processors to write to State Stores during Processor.init() ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---