[KAFKA-4622] KafkaConsumer does not properly handle authorization errors from offset fetches

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0.1, 0.10.0.1, 0.10.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.2.0
• Component/s: consumer
• Assignee: Jason Gustafson
• Reporter: Jason Gustafson
• Created: 12/Jan/17 02:07
• Updated: 16/Jan/17 10:57
• Resolved: 16/Jan/17 10:57

Description

It's possible to receive both group and topic authorization exceptions from an OffsetFetch, but the consumer currently treats this as generic unexpected errors. We should probably return GroupAuthorizationException and TopicAuthorizationException to be consistent with the other consumer APIs.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2384