[KAFKA-15551] Evaluate conditions for short circuiting consumer API calls

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: clients, consumer
• Labels: consumer-threading-refactor events
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Philip Nee
• Created: 05/Oct/23 18:03
• Updated: 07/Oct/24 04:01

Description

For conditions like:

• Committing empty offset
• Fetching offsets for empty partitions
• Getting empty topic partition position

Should be short circuit possibly at the API level.

As a bonus, we should double-check whether the existing KafkaConsumer implementation suffers from this.