Jason Gustafson created KAFKA-13668:
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Summary: Failed cluster authorization should not be fatal for
producer
Key: KAFKA-13668
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-13668
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Jason Gustafson
The idempotent producer fails fatally if the initial `InitProducerId` returns
CLUSTER_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED. This makes the producer unusable until a new
instance is constructed. For some applications, it is more convenient to keep
the producer instance active and let the administrator fix the permission
problem instead of going into a crash loop. Additionally, most applications
will probably not be smart enough to reconstruct the producer instance, so if
the application does not handle the error by failing, users will have to
restart the application manually.
I think it would be better to let the producer retry the `InitProducerId`
request as long as the user keeps trying to use the producer.
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