[KAFKA-7044] kafka-consumer-groups.sh NullPointerException describing round robin or sticky assignors

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.2, 2.0.1, 2.1.0
• Component/s: tools
• Environment: CentOS 7.4, Oracle JDK 1.8
• Assignee: Anna Povzner
• Reporter: Jeff Field
• Created: 12/Jun/18 01:44
• Updated: 11/Sep/18 17:28
• Resolved: 11/Sep/18 17:28

Description

We've recently moved to using the round robin assignor for one of our consumer groups, and started testing the sticky assignor. In both cases, using Kafka 1.1.0 we get a null pointer exception unless the group being described is rebalancing:

kafka-consumer-groups --bootstrap-server fqdn:9092 --describe --group groupname-for-consumer

Error: Executing consumer group command failed due to null
[2018-06-12 01:32:34,179] DEBUG Exception in consumer group command (kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$)
java.lang.NullPointerException
at scala.Predef$.Long2long(Predef.scala:363)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$getLogEndOffsets$2.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:612)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$getLogEndOffsets$2.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:610)
at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234)
at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234)
at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:392)
at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:234)
at scala.collection.immutable.List.map(List.scala:296)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.getLogEndOffsets(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:610)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$ConsumerGroupService$class.describePartitions(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:328)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$ConsumerGroupService$class.collectConsumerAssignment(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:308)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.collectConsumerAssignment(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:544)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$10$$anonfun$13.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:571)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$10$$anonfun$13.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:565)
at scala.collection.immutable.List.flatMap(List.scala:338)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$10.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:565)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$10.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:558)
at scala.Option.map(Option.scala:146)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.collectGroupOffsets(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:558)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$ConsumerGroupService$class.describeGroup(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:271)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.describeGroup(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:544)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$.main(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:77)
at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand.main(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala)
[2018-06-12 01:32:34,255] DEBUG Removed sensor with name connections-closed: (org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.Metrics)

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: KAFKA-7170 NPE in ConsumerGroupCommand when describe consumer group
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5627