[KAFKA-14252] Create background thread skeleton for new Consumer threading model

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.7.0
• Component/s: clients, consumer
• Labels: consumer-threading-refactor
• Assignee: Philip Nee
• Reporter: Philip Nee
• Created: 21/Sep/22 17:43
• Updated: 19/Dec/23 03:15
• Resolved: 20/Oct/22 02:08

Description

The event handler internally instantiates a background thread to consume ApplicationEvents and produce BackgroundEvents.  In this ticket, we will create a skeleton of the background thread.  We will incrementally add implementation in the future.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12672