[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-8421) Allow consumer.poll() to return data in the middle of rebalance

["Guozhang Wang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Guozhang Wang created KAFKA-8421:
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             Summary: Allow consumer.poll() to return data in the middle of rebalance
                 Key: KAFKA-8421
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8421
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: consumer
            Reporter: Guozhang Wang


With KIP-429 in place, today when a consumer is about to send join-group request its owned partitions may not be empty, meaning that some of its fetched data can still be returned. Nevertheless, today the logic is strict:

{code}
                    if (!updateAssignmentMetadataIfNeeded(timer)) {
                        return ConsumerRecords.empty();
                    }
{code}

I.e. if the consumer enters a rebalance it always returns no data. 

As an optimization, we can consider letting consumers to still return messages that still belong to its owned partitions even when it is within a rebalance, because we know it is safe that no one else would claim those partitions in this rebalance yet, and we can still commit offsets if, after this rebalance, the partitions need to be revoked then.

One thing we need to take care though is the rebalance timeout, i.e. when consumer's processing those records they may not call the next poll() in time (think: Kafka Streams num.iterations mechanism), which may leads to consumer dropping out of the group during rebalance.



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