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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-5716:
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GitHub user steff1193 opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3872

    KAFKA-5716 [WIP]: Recent polled offsets may not be written/flushed at 
SourceTask.commit

    @rhauch @tedyu @hachikuji 
    
    For now a test showing that the claimed problem is true. Should definitely 
not be committed - its a failing test. It fails trying to assert 
SourceTask.commit javadoc: Commit the offsets, up to the offsets that have been 
returned by {@link #poll()}
    
    The contribution is my (@steff1193) original work and I license the work to 
the project under the project's open source license.

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

    $ git pull https://github.com/TeletronicsDotAe/kafka KAFKA-5716

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

    https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3872.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 #3872
    
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commit 9d093478b606f2defdc64ea64e306e46541126e6
Author: Per Steffensen <st...@designware.dk>
Date:   2017-09-15T13:07:04Z

    KAFKA-5716 Added test showing that the claim in KAFKA-5716 is true. It is 
possible that the offsets of the records from very recent polls are not 
included in the offsets written and flushed at the time of SourceTask.commit 
called

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> Connect: When SourceTask.commit it is possible not everthing from 
> SourceTask.poll has been sent
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-5716
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5716
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: KafkaConnect
>            Reporter: Per Steffensen
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: KAFKA-5716.patch
>
>
> Not looking at the very latest code, so the "problem" may have been corrected 
> recently. If so, I apologize. I found the "problem" by code-inspection alone, 
> so I may be wrong. Have not had the time to write tests to confirm.
> According to java-doc on SourceTask.commit
> {quote}
> Commit the offsets, up to the offsets that have been returned by \{@link 
> #poll()}. This
> method should block until the commit is complete.
> SourceTasks are not required to implement this functionality; Kafka Connect 
> will record offsets
> automatically. This hook is provided for systems that also need to store 
> offsets internally
> in their own system.
> {quote}
> As I read this, when commit-method is called, the SourceTask-developer is 
> "told" that everything returned from poll up until "now" has been sent/stored 
> - both the outgoing messages and the associated connect-offsets. Looking at 
> the implementation it also seems that this is what it tries to 
> "guarantee/achieve".
> But as I see read the code, it is not necessarily true
> The following threads are involved
> * Task-thread: WorkerSourceTask has its own thread running 
> WorkerSourceTask.execute.
> * Committer-thread: From time to time SourceTaskOffsetCommitter is scheduled 
> to call WorkerSourceTask.commitOffsets (from a different thread)
> The two thread synchronize (on the WorkerSourceTask-object) in sendRecord and 
> commitOffsets respectively, hindering the task-thread to add to 
> outstandingMessages and offsetWriter while committer-thread is marking what 
> has to be flushed in the offsetWriter and waiting for outstandingMessages to 
> be empty. This means that the offsets committed will be consistent with what 
> has been sent out, but not necessarily what has been polled. At least I do 
> not see why the following is not possible:
> * Task-thread polls something from the task.poll
> * Before task-thread gets to add (all) the polled records to 
> outstandingMessages and offsetWriter in sendRecords, committer-thread kicks 
> in and does its commiting, while hindering the task-thread adding the polled 
> records to outstandingMessages and offsetWriter
> * Consistency will not have been compromised, but committer-thread will end 
> up calling task.commit (via WorkerSourceTask.commitSourceTask), without the 
> records just polled from task.poll has been sent or corresponding 
> connector-offsets flushed.
> If I am right, I guess there are two way to fix it
> * Either change the java-doc of SourceTask.commit, to something a-la (which I 
> do believe is true)
> {quote}
> Commit the offsets, up to the offsets that have been returned by \{@link 
> #poll()}
> *and confirmed by a call to \{@link #commitRecord(SourceRecord)}*.
> This method should block until the commit is complete.
> SourceTasks are not required to implement this functionality; Kafka Connect 
> will record offsets
> automatically. This hook is provided for systems that also need to store 
> offsets internally
> in their own system.
> {quote}
> * or, fix the "problem" so that it actually does what the java-doc says :-)
> If I am not right, of course I apologize for the inconvenience. I would 
> appreciate an explanation where my code-inspection is not correct, and why it 
> works even though I cannot see it. I will not expect such an explanation, 
> though.



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