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Colin McCabe commented on KAFKA-12879:
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bq. My suggestion is to do 3 and to make sure the cause of `TimeoutException`
is `UnknownTopicOrPartitionException`. Since 2.5.2 and newer have the updated
behavior, it's now more disruptive to change it back.
I think this is still quite harmful for people who want to build tools to poll
partition offsets. It's really a very disruptive behavior to time out, which
could take several minutes and many retries.
I almost would suggest adding an option for this... but I just think the retry
behavior is wrong and not consistent with how most admin operations work.
> Compatibility break in Admin.listOffsets()
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> Key: KAFKA-12879
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-12879
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: admin
> Affects Versions: 2.8.0, 2.7.1, 2.6.2
> Reporter: Tom Bentley
> Assignee: Kirk True
> Priority: Major
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> KAFKA-12339 incompatibly changed the semantics of Admin.listOffsets().
> Previously it would fail with {{UnknownTopicOrPartitionException}} when a
> topic didn't exist. Now it will (eventually) fail with {{TimeoutException}}.
> It seems this was more or less intentional, even though it would break code
> which was expecting and handling the {{UnknownTopicOrPartitionException}}. A
> workaround is to use {{retries=1}} and inspect the cause of the
> {{TimeoutException}}, but this isn't really suitable for cases where the same
> Admin client instance is being used for other calls where retries is
> desirable.
> Furthermore as well as the intended effect on {{listOffsets()}} it seems that
> the change could actually affect other methods of Admin.
> More generally, the Admin client API is vague about which exceptions can
> propagate from which methods. This means that it's not possible to say, in
> cases like this, whether the calling code _should_ have been relying on the
> {{UnknownTopicOrPartitionException}} or not.
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