[KAFKA-6053] NoSuchMethodError when creating ProducerRecord in upgrade system tests

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0, 1.1.0
• Assignee: Apurva Mehta
• Reporter: Apurva Mehta
• Created: 11/Oct/17 16:28
• Updated: 12/Oct/17 09:15
• Resolved: 12/Oct/17 09:15

Description

This patch https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4029 used a new constructor for ProducerRecord which doesn't exist in older clients. Hence system tests which use older clients fail with:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Integer;Ljava/lang/Long;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
        at org.apache.kafka.tools.VerifiableProducer.send(VerifiableProducer.java:232)
        at org.apache.kafka.tools.VerifiableProducer.run(VerifiableProducer.java:462)
        at org.apache.kafka.tools.VerifiableProducer.main(VerifiableProducer.java:500)
{"timestamp":1507711495458,"name":"shutdown_complete"}
{"timestamp":1507711495459,"name":"tool_data","sent":0,"acked":0,"target_throughput":10000,"avg_throughput":0.0}
amehta-macbook-pro:worker6 apurva$

A trivial fix is to only use the new constructor if a message create time is explicitly passed to the VerifiableProducer, since older versions of the test would never use it.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4057