Yousef Amar created KAFKA-5506: ---------------------------------- Summary: bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh failing to query offsets Key: KAFKA-5506 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5506 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: consumer Environment: Linux slfd06 4.4.0-78-generic #99~14.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 27 18:49:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Reporter: Yousef Amar
When I found that {{bin/kafka-consumer-offset-checker.sh}} was deprecated and didn't work, I checked the docs and ran the following instead (using new consumer, and coordinator vs zookeeper): {code:java} bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --new-consumer --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --describe --group test {code} I kept getting a NullPointerException though (line numbers are a bit off because of debug code): {code:java} java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils.join(Utils.java:399) at org.apache.kafka.common.requests.OffsetFetchRequest$Builder.toString(OffsetFetchRequest.java:77) at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2994) at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:131) at org.apache.kafka.clients.ClientRequest.toString(ClientRequest.java:65) at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.doSend(NetworkClient.java:375) at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.send(NetworkClient.java:332) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.trySend(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:409) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:252) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:208) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:199) at kafka.admin.AdminClient$$anon$1.run(AdminClient.scala:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Error: Executing consumer group command failed due to The server experienced an unexpected error when processing the request {code} I tracked this down to the following. The request builder that is instantiated [here|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/core/src/main/scala/kafka/admin/AdminClient.scala#L198] has its {{partitions}} set to {{ALL_TOPIC_PARTITIONS}} which is null (v2 or newer to request all topic partitions). Later, [when sending the request|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/NetworkClient.java#L375], it's converted to a string. But {{partitions}} above can only be null when built that way, so [this|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/requests/OffsetFetchRequest.java#L76] throws the exception. I'm quite new to Kafka, so I'm still not entirely sure if I'm doing something wrong or if this is indeed a bug. As such, any pointers or advice would be much appreciated. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)