Status

Current state: Draft

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JIRA: KAFKA-6750

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Motivation

Currently when building a Principal, the builder has access to an  AuthenticationContext which contains the security protocol as well as the client address. However since 0.10.2.0 Kafka can have multiple listeners for the same protocol using listener names (listener.security.protocol.map). While we can identify the source of the connection using the client address, having the listener name would make it simpler as IPs/networks can change and it currently requires to parse the client IP.

Public Interfaces

A new public method will be added to AuthenticationContext:

/**
 * Name of the listener used for the connection
 */
ListenerName listenerName();

As well as to all the existing implementations: PlaintextAuthenticationContext, SslAuthenticationContext and SaslAuthenticationContext.

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

No compatilibty, deprecation, migration plan required.

Rejected Alternatives

If there are alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing, what were they? The purpose of this section is to motivate why the design is the way it is and not some other way.