[KAFKA-8887] Use purgatory for CreateAcls and DeleteAcls if implementation is async

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Rajini Sivaram
• Reporter: Rajini Sivaram
• Reviewer: Manikumar
• Created: 08/Sep/19 17:19
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 08:28
• Resolved: 02/Oct/19 08:28

Description

KAFKA-8886 is updating Authorizer.createAcls and Authorizer.deleteAcls APIs to be asynchronous to avoid blocking request threads during ACL updates when implementations use external stores like databases where updates may block for long. This Jira is to async updates using a purgatory in KafkaApis.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7404