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Igor Stepanov updated KAFKA-3923:
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    Description: 
Hello,

I'm working on exposing Kafka's consumer/producer metrics to Spring Actuator.

To achieve this, I've implemented Kafka's MetricReporter interface to allow 
injecting it into the appropriate consumer/producer. No issues with 
implementation itself, fine for me.

But now I've moved to writing unit tests for this implementation and decided to 
use mocked KafkaMetric instances for this. But mocking of KafkaMetric itself is 
not so plain - the class is final. The logical step is to use Metric interface 
for mocking, but MetricReporter accepts only KafkaMetric.

I know that technically I can use PowerMock and most probably it will work fine 
in this case, but talking about Kafka itself, is it a good approach to depend 
on the exact implementation when interface is available?

  was:
Hello,

I'm working on exposing Kafka's consumer/producer metrics to Spring Actuator.

To achieve this, I've implemented Kafka's MetricReporter interface to allow 
injecting it into the appropriate consumer/producer. No issues with 
implementation itself, fine for me.

But now I've moved to writing unit tests for this implementation and decided to 
use mocked KafkaMetric instances for this. But mocking of KafkaMetric itself is 
not so plain - the class is final. The logical step is to use Metric interface 
for mocking, but MetricReporter accepts only KafkaMetric.

I know that technically I can use PowerMock and most probably it will work fine 
in this case, but talking about Kafka itself, is it a good approach to depend 
on the exact implementation when interface fulfils most of the needs?


> MetricReporter interface depends on final class KafkaMetric instead of Metric 
> interface
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-3923
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3923
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: clients
>            Reporter: Igor Stepanov
>
> Hello,
> I'm working on exposing Kafka's consumer/producer metrics to Spring Actuator.
> To achieve this, I've implemented Kafka's MetricReporter interface to allow 
> injecting it into the appropriate consumer/producer. No issues with 
> implementation itself, fine for me.
> But now I've moved to writing unit tests for this implementation and decided 
> to use mocked KafkaMetric instances for this. But mocking of KafkaMetric 
> itself is not so plain - the class is final. The logical step is to use 
> Metric interface for mocking, but MetricReporter accepts only KafkaMetric.
> I know that technically I can use PowerMock and most probably it will work 
> fine in this case, but talking about Kafka itself, is it a good approach to 
> depend on the exact implementation when interface is available?



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