Status

Current state: Under Discussion

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Motivation

Currently there is not a native way to shutdown and entire KStreams application from a StreamThread. This functionality would be useful for immediately halting processing to prevent data from being corrupted.

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• source/sink topic deleted. A handler will be exposed to a the users created for error source topics in KIP-662.
• Serialization or Deserialization failures. This can add another option to prevent rolling thread death.
  • currently they have the option of returning a Continue or Fail Enum. In the future we can expand this to include Shutdown and then throw ShutdownRequestedException in response
• Add another option in KIP-399 if failing and having only the thread fail is not comprehensive enough
• User specific cases such as 

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  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key KAFKA-4748

Public Interfaces

KafkaStreams.java

/**
     * Attempts to shutdown an application.
     * If there is an alive StreamThread it will succeed, if there is not it will fail
     *
     * @return Will return true if shutdown is initiated false if it is not possible.
     */
    public boolean initiateClosingAllClients();

Proposed Changes

We propose to add a new method that will cause all clients in the application to be shutdown when called. We achieve this adding initiateClosingAllClients to `KafkaStreams.java`  which will search for an alive stream thread to start the shutdown. If there is not an alive thread the method will return false indicating that the shutdown was not initiated. The method will be non-blocking but will stop the alive thread it found from processing.

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No methods need to be deprecated.

Rejected Alternatives

• Two paths, Internal Error via exception and a request method for users to call
• Add a config option to shutdown when ever a user error is thrown - no flexible enough
• Throwing an Exception instead of shutdown Application