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[jira] [Work started] (CAMEL-24783) camel-kafka - async batch producer: in-flight callbacks can mutate a continued/recycled exchange after a mid-batch dispatch failure

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Work on CAMEL-24783 started by Andrea Cosentino.
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> camel-kafka - async batch producer: in-flight callbacks can mutate a continued/recycled exchange after a mid-batch dispatch failure
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>                 Key: CAMEL-24783
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-24783
>             Project: Camel
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: camel-kafka
>            Reporter: Andrea Cosentino
>            Assignee: Andrea Cosentino
>            Priority: Major
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> h3. Problem
> In the asynchronous batch/iterator producer path ({{KafkaProducer.processIterableAsync}} -> {{doSend}}), records are dispatched one at a time. If a *later* element fails to dispatch - {{kafkaProducer.send()}} can throw synchronously (buffer exhaustion / {{max.block.ms}} timeout, serialization error, producer closed), or {{KeyValueHolderIterator.next()}} can throw (bad {{CamelKafkaOverrideTimestamp}} conversion, or header serialization when {{batchWithIndividualHeaders=true}}) - the catch in {{process()}} does {{exchange.setException(e); callback.done(true);}} and routing continues.
> However, the records already dispatched have in-flight Kafka callbacks. When those later complete on the Kafka sender thread, {{KafkaProducerCallBack.onCompletion}} runs {{setException(exchange, ...)}} and {{recordMetadataList.add(...)}} on an exchange that has *already continued* down the route (and, with exchange pooling, may have been reset/reused). This is a data race / use-after-continue that can corrupt headers or exception state on a continued or recycled exchange. (The completion counter never reaches 0 because {{allSent()}} is skipped on the failure path, so there is no double {{done()}} - but the mutation race remains.)
> h3. Proposed direction
> On a mid-batch dispatch failure, do not continue routing until the already-dispatched sends have completed (or otherwise prevent late callbacks from mutating a continued/recycled exchange). Needs careful handling of the completion counter and exchange pooling, plus a failure-injection test.
> Design-first; filing to track. Related: CAMEL-24779 (single-message path), CAMEL-24780.



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