The producer can handle the retry on its own and the failure is invisible to the application

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Current state: Under Voting 

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1. Producer-Retriable: mostly maps onto current retriable errors. The producer can handle the retry on its own and the failure is invisible to the application. Some of these errors may indicate that a metadata update at the producer level is required. Because of that we introduce a few subclasses to the retriable error

   1. retry only (just send the request again – after some period of backoff)

   2. refresh metadata and retry (request metadata and maybe modify the request before resending)

2. Producer-Abortable: mostly maps onto abortable errors. The error is bubbled to the application layer, and it can choose to roll back any state from the ongoing transaction and abort the transaction. The producer does not need to restart, as after aborting, it can be confident that the state was as it was before the transaction started. The application can also close the producer and react as it does for application-recoverable cases, but it doesn’t need to.

3. Application-Recoverable: maps on to some fatal errors. The error is bubbled to the application layer, and it may need to do a bit more to roll back and clean up state. The producer can not simply abort and know the current state of the partitions. Applications can handle this in different ways – streams may rebalance a task and/or close the task and restart it. Another application may read from their own checkpoint to continue. In any case, the producer must restart and will be unusable after encountering this error.

4. Invalid-Configuration: maps to some fatal errors. The error is bubbled up to the application layer. The application can decide what to do. The producer doesn’t need to restart, but the application may chose to close it.

For Producer-Retriable errors, the producer handles retries internally, keeping the failure details hidden from the application. Conversely, other types of exceptions will be surfaced to the application code for handling.

Each error code always represent the same class and rarely rely on client state to determine how to handle. Additionally Additionally, while it is good to have a mapping, It is also useful to have a general strategy – ie a typical unknown error (not specified by the client to have a type) should probably be application recoverable.

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We will handle all default exceptions as generic unknown errors, which will be application recoverable. Below are few such exceptions:

InvalidConfigurationTransactionException

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