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Lianet Magrans edited comment on KAFKA-19585 at 8/11/25 1:38 PM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hi [~francisgodinho]! Thanks for your interest! There is already someone from the team working on this :S But stay on the lookout for new issue that we create, and also maybe check what's already out with minor/trivial complexity (ex. [this filter|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-15642?jql=project%20%3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20%22Patch%20Available%22)%20AND%20priority%20in%20(Minor%2C%20Trivial)%20AND%20component%20%3D%20clients] for the clients space, but also check other components). Welcome to the community! was (Author: JIRAUSER300183): Hi [~francisgodinho]! Thanks for your interest! There is already someone from the team working on this :S But stay on the lookout for new issue that we create, and also maybe check what's already out with minor/trivial complexity (ex. [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-15642?jql=project%20%3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20%22Patch%20Available%22)%20AND%20priority%20in%20(Minor%2C%20Trivial)%20AND%20component%20%3D%20clients|http://example.com] for the clients space, but also check other components). Welcome to the community! > Avoid noisy NPE logs when closing consumer after constructor failures > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-19585 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-19585 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: clients, consumer > Reporter: Lianet Magrans > Assignee: Lianet Magrans > Priority: Minor > > If there's a failure in the kafka consumer constructor, we attempt to close > it > https://github.com/lianetm/kafka/blob/2329def2ff9ca4f7b9426af159b6fa19a839dc4d/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/internals/AsyncKafkaConsumer.java#L540 > In that case, it could be the case that some components may have not been > created, so we should consider some null checks to avoid noisy logs about > NPE. > This noisy logs have been reported with the console share consumer in a > similar scenario, so this task is to review and do a similar fix for the > Async if needed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)