[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-12270) Kafka Connect may fail a task when racing to create topic

["Randall Hauch (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Randall Hauch created KAFKA-12270:
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             Summary: Kafka Connect may fail a task when racing to create topic
                 Key: KAFKA-12270
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-12270
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: KafkaConnect
    Affects Versions: 2.7.0, 2.6.0, 2.8.0
            Reporter: Randall Hauch
            Assignee: Randall Hauch


When a source connector configured with many tasks and to use the new topic creation feature is run, it is possible that multiple tasks will attempt to write to the same topic, will see that the topic does not exist, and then race to create the topic. The topic is only created once, but some tasks might fail with:
{code:java}
org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException: Task failed to create new topic (name=TOPICX, numPartitions=8, replicationFactor=3, replicasAssignments=null, configs={cleanup.policy=delete}). Ensure that the task is authorized to create topics or that the topic exists and restart the task
  at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSourceTask.maybeCreateTopic(WorkerSourceTask.java:436)
  at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSourceTask.sendRecords(WorkerSourceTask.java:364)
  at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSourceTask.execute(WorkerSourceTask.java:264)
  at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.doRun(WorkerTask.java:185)
  at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.run(WorkerTask.java:235)
... {code}
The reason appears to be that the WorkerSourceTask throws an exception if the topic creation failed, and does not account for the fact that the topic may have been created between the time the WorkerSourceTask lists existing topics and tries to create the topic.

 

See in particular: https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/5c562efb2d76407011ea88c1ca1b2355079935bc/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/runtime/WorkerSourceTask.java#L415-L423



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