Steven Zhang created KAFKA-9511:
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Summary: Return more specific error and message when
producer.initTransaction fails due to missing Kafka configs
Key: KAFKA-9511
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9511
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Steven Zhang
If a user is running a single Kafka broker and tries to initialize a
transaction without setting the following configs to 1:
- transaction.state.log.replication.factor
- transaction.state.log.min.isr
- offsets.topic.replication.factor
The initTransactions() fails and a very generic TimeoutException is returned.
This is because the default values are greater than 1 and need to be overridden
in order for the transactions to properly work with a single broker.
The only way for the user to figure out the issue is to look into the logs and
see the following error logs.
ERROR [KafkaApi-1] Number of alive brokers '1' does not meet the required
replication factor '3' for the transactions state topic (configured via
'transaction.state.log.replication.factor'). This error can be ignored if the
cluster is starting up and not all brokers are up yet. (kafka.server.KafkaApis)
Although this is specific to scenarios where there's only a single Kafka Broker
running, it would help improve usability if the error was clearer. A
"CoordinatorNotAvailableException" could be returned with a clear error message
indicating the configs need to be set if the user intends to only run a single
broker
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