JimmyZZZ commented on code in PR #107:
URL: 
https://github.com/apache/flink-connector-kafka/pull/107#discussion_r1667003068


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flink-connector-kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/connector/kafka/sink/KafkaWriter.java:
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@@ -411,11 +411,22 @@ private void registerMetricSync() {
      * Logic needs to be invoked by write AND flush since we support various 
semantics.
      */
     private void checkAsyncException() throws IOException {
-        // reset this exception since we could close the writer later on
         Exception e = asyncProducerException;
         if (e != null) {
-
-            asyncProducerException = null;
+            // In old version, asyncProducerException will be set to null 
here, which causes another
+            // bug [FLINK-35749]
+            // once asyncProducerException is set to null here, the 
MailboxExecutor thread in
+            // WriterCallback.onCompletion may also invoke this method 
checkAsyncException and get
+            // chance to make
+            // asyncProducerException be null before the function flush() and 
write() seeing the
+            // exception.
+            // After that, the flush and writer functions can continue to 
write next message batch
+            // to kafka, the old
+            // in-flight message batch with exceptions get lost.
+            // We hope that once some exceptions thrown during sending kafka, 
KafkaWriter could be
+            // fast-failed and
+            // trigger global restarting, then asyncProducerException will be 
initialized as null
+            // again.

Review Comment:
   Thanks for remind, I need some time to think over about this part 



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