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[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-9400) Make Consumer Class Extend
AutoCloseable
David Mollitor created KAFKA-9400:
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Summary: Make Consumer Class Extend AutoCloseable
Key: KAFKA-9400
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9400
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: David Mollitor
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The consumer maintains TCP connections to the necessary brokers to fetch data.
Failure to close the consumer after use will leak these connections.
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https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/505e8240cd29fe3f0effa96d794bc711d5c8423b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.java#L92-L94
To assist in making sure that consumers are closed, please have the Consumer interface extend AutoCloseable.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/AutoCloseable.html
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