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  1. Kafka
  2. KAFKA-8726

Producer can't abort a transaction aftersome send errors

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    • Bug
    • Status: Open
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 2.3.0
    • None
    • clients, producer
    • None

    Description

      I am following the producer with transactions example in https://kafka.apache.org/23/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/KafkaProducer.html, and on kafkaException, I use abortTransaction and retry.

       

      In some cases, abortTransaction fails, with:

      ```

      org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Cannot execute transactional method because we are in an error state

      ```

      as far as I can tell, this is caused by

      ```

      org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: The client hasn't received acknowledgment for some previously sent messages and can no longer retry them. It isn't safe to continue.
      ```

       

      Since both are KafkaException, the example seems to imply they are retriable, but they seem not to be. Ideally, I would expect abortTransaction to succeed in this case (the broker will abort the transaction anyway because it can't be committed), but at the very least, I would expect to have a way to determine that the producer is unusable and it can't recover.

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            mbarbon Mattia Barbon
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