William R. Speirs created KAFKA-6490: ----------------------------------------
Summary: JSON SerializationException Stops Connect Key: KAFKA-6490 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6490 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: KafkaConnect Affects Versions: 1.0.0 Reporter: William R. Speirs If you configure KafkaConnect to parse JSON messages, and you send it a non-JSON message, the SerializationException message will bubble up to the top, and stop KafkaConnect. While I understand sending non-JSON to a JSON serializer is a bad idea, I think that a single malformed message stopping all of KafkaConnect is even worse. The data exception is thrown here: [https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/connect/json/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/json/JsonConverter.java#L305] >From the call here: >[https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/runtime/WorkerSinkTask.java#L476] This bubbles all the way up to the top, and KafkaConnect simply stops with the message: {{ERROR WorkerSinkTask\{id=elasticsearch-sink-0} Task threw an uncaught and unrecoverable exception (org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask:172)}} Thoughts on adding a {{try/catch}} around the {{for}} loop in WorkerSinkTask's {{convertMessages}} so messages that don't properly parse are logged, but simply ignored? This way KafkaConnect can keep working even when it encounters a message it cannot decode? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)