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Sagar Rao reassigned KAFKA-14138:
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    Assignee:     (was: Sagar Rao)

> The Exception Throwing Behavior of Transactional Producer is Inconsistent
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>                 Key: KAFKA-14138
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-14138
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: producer 
>            Reporter: Guozhang Wang
>            Priority: Critical
>
> There's an issue for inconsistent error throwing inside Kafka Producer when 
> transactions are enabled. In short, there are two places where the received 
> error code from the brokers would be eventually thrown to the caller:
> * Recorded on the batch's metadata, via "Sender#failBatch"
> * Recorded on the txn manager, via "txnManager#handleFailedBatch".
> The former would be thrown from 1) the `Future<RecordMetadata>` returned from 
> the `send`; or 2) the `callback` inside `send(record, callback)`. Whereas, 
> the latter would be thrown from `producer.send()` directly in which we call 
> `txnManager.maybeAddPartition -> maybeFailWithError`. However, when thrown 
> from the former, it's not wrapped hence the direct exception (e.g. 
> ClusterAuthorizationException), whereas in the latter it's wrapped as, e.g. 
> KafkaException(ClusterAuthorizationException). And which one would be thrown 
> depend on a race condition since we cannot control by the time the caller 
> thread calls `txnManager.maybeAddPartition`, if the previous produceRequest's 
> error has been sent back or not.
> For example consider the following sequence for idempotent producer:
> 1. caller thread: within future = producer.send(), call 
> recordAccumulator.append
> 2. sender thread: drain the accumulator, send the produceRequest and get the 
> error back.
> 3. caller thread: within future = producer.send(), call 
> txnManager.maybeAddPartition, in which we would check `maybeFailWithError` 
> before `isTransactional`.
> 4. caller thread: future.get()
> In a sequence where then 3) happened before 2), we would only get the raw 
> exception at step 4; in a sequence where 2) happened before 3), then we would 
> throw the exception immediately at 3).
> This inconsistent error throwing is pretty annoying for users since they'd 
> need to handle both cases, but many of them actually do not know this 
> trickiness. We should make the error throwing consistent, e.g. we should 
> consider: 1) which errors would be thrown from callback / future.get, and 
> which would be thrown from the `send` call directly, and these errors should 
> better be non-overlapping, 2) whether we should wrap the raw error or not, we 
> should do so consistently.



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