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Richard Yu edited comment on KAFKA-6127 at 7/6/18 6:29 AM: ----------------------------------------------------------- Well, with the current setup that we have with KafkaConsumer, it appears that a user-specified timeout was favored over a configuration-defined one. (An entire argument was waged over this topic, go figure) If we were to continue this trend, it might be that user-specified timeout would be implemented. (This is streams after all, some more flexibility on the amount of time one would block probably would be better). was (Author: yohan123): Well, with the current setup that we have with KafkaConsumer, it appears that a user-specified timeout was favored over a configuration-defined one. (An entire argument was waged over this topic, go figure) If we were to continue this trend, it might be that user-specified timeout would be implemented. (This is streams after all, some more flexibility on the amount of time one would block probably would be bet{{ter.)}} > Streams should never block infinitely > ------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-6127 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6127 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: streams > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Matthias J. Sax > Assignee: Richard Yu > Priority: Major > Labels: exactly-once > > Streams uses three consumer APIs that can block infinite: {{commitSync()}}, > {{committed()}}, and {{position()}}. Also {{KafkaProducer#send()}} can block. > If EOS is enabled, {{KafkaProducer#initTransactions()}} also used to block > (fixed in KAFKA-6446) and we should double check the code if we handle this > case correctly. > If we block within one operation, the whole {{StreamThread}} would block, and > the instance does not make any progress, becomes unresponsive (for example, > {{KafkaStreams#close()}} suffers), and we also might drop out of the consumer > group. > Thanks to > [KIP-266|[https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75974886],] > the Consumer now has non-blocking variants that we can use, but the same is > not true of Producer. We can add non-blocking variants to Producer as well, > or set the appropriate config options to set the max timeout. > Of course, we'd also need to be sure the catch the appropriate timeout > exceptions. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)