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Moses Nakamura commented on KAFKA-3539: --------------------------------------- So I know what I want to do and I've been trying to put together a prototype in advance of updating the KIP document, but even relatively modest changes seem to break a lot of tests. [~ewencp] are you an expert in KafkaProducer? Would you mind taking some time to chat and give me advice on how to proceed? > KafkaProducer.send() may block even though it returns the Future > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-3539 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3539 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: producer > Reporter: Oleg Zhurakousky > Priority: Critical > Labels: needs-discussion, needs-kip > > You can get more details from the us...@kafka.apache.org by searching on the > thread with the subject "KafkaProducer block on send". > The bottom line is that method that returns Future must never block, since it > essentially violates the Future contract as it was specifically designed to > return immediately passing control back to the user to check for completion, > cancel etc. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)