Michal Turek created KAFKA-3450: ----------------------------------- Summary: Producer blocks on send to topic that doesn't exist if auto create is disabled Key: KAFKA-3450 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3450 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: producer Affects Versions: 0.9.0.1 Reporter: Michal Turek Assignee: Jun Rao Priority: Minor
{{producer.send()}} is blocked for {{max.block.ms}} (default 60 seconds) if the destination topic doesn't exist and if their automatic creation is disabled. Warning from NetworkClient containing UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION is logged every 100 ms in a loop until the 60 seconds timeout expires, but the operation is not recoverable. Preconditions - Kafka 0.9.0.1 with default configuration and auto.create.topics.enable=false - Kafka 0.9.0.1 clients. Example minimalist code https://github.com/avast/kafka-tests/blob/master/src/main/java/com/avast/kafkatests/othertests/nosuchtopic/NoSuchTopicTest.java {noformat} /** * Test of sending to a topic that does not exist while automatic creation of topics is disabled in Kafka (auto.create.topics.enable=false). */ public class NoSuchTopicTest { private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(NoSuchTopicTest.class); public static void main(String[] args) { Properties properties = new Properties(); properties.setProperty(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, "localhost:9092"); properties.setProperty(ProducerConfig.CLIENT_ID_CONFIG, NoSuchTopicTest.class.getSimpleName()); properties.setProperty(ProducerConfig.MAX_BLOCK_MS_CONFIG, "1000"); // Default is 60 seconds try (Producer<String, String> producer = new KafkaProducer<>(properties, new StringSerializer(), new StringSerializer())) { LOGGER.info("Sending message"); producer.send(new ProducerRecord<>("ThisTopicDoesNotExist", "key", "value"), (metadata, exception) -> { if (exception != null) { LOGGER.error("Send failed: {}", exception.toString()); } else { LOGGER.info("Send successful: {}-{}/{}", metadata.topic(), metadata.partition(), metadata.offset()); } }); LOGGER.info("Sending message"); producer.send(new ProducerRecord<>("ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo", "key", "value"), (metadata, exception) -> { if (exception != null) { LOGGER.error("Send failed: {}", exception.toString()); } else { LOGGER.info("Send successful: {}-{}/{}", metadata.topic(), metadata.partition(), metadata.offset()); } }); } } } {noformat} Related output {noformat} 2016-03-23 12:44:37.725 INFO c.a.k.o.nosuchtopic.NoSuchTopicTest [main]: Sending message (NoSuchTopicTest.java:26) 2016-03-23 12:44:37.830 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 0 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:37.928 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 1 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.028 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 2 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.130 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 3 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.231 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 4 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.332 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 5 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.433 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 6 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.534 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 7 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.635 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 8 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.736 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 9 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.772 ERROR c.a.k.o.nosuchtopic.NoSuchTopicTest [main]: Send failed: org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Failed to update metadata after 35 ms. (NoSuchTopicTest.java:29) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.773 INFO c.a.k.o.nosuchtopic.NoSuchTopicTest [main]: Sending message (NoSuchTopicTest.java:35) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.837 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 10 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:38.938 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 11 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.039 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 12 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.140 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 13 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.242 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 14 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.345 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 15 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.447 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 16 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.549 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 17 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.651 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 18 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.752 WARN o.a.kafka.clients.NetworkClient [kafka-producer-network-thread | NoSuchTopicTest]: Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 19 : {ThisTopicDoesNotExist=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, ThisTopicDoesNotExistToo=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (NetworkClient.java:582) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.774 ERROR c.a.k.o.nosuchtopic.NoSuchTopicTest [main]: Send failed: org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Failed to update metadata after 21 ms. (NoSuchTopicTest.java:38) 2016-03-23 12:44:39.774 INFO o.a.k.c.producer.KafkaProducer [main]: Closing the Kafka producer with timeoutMillis = 9223372036854775807 ms. (KafkaProducer.java:613) {noformat} Known workaround - Configure {{max.block.ms = 0}} in producer to prevent blocking and return from send() immediately. But be careful, I'm not sure if is it safe and can't cause something even worse ;-) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)