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Fix ack failure on message listener in multi topics consumer #447

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@nkurihar nkurihar commented Oct 2, 2024

Fixes #446

Motivation

We found an ack failure issue: #446

MessageListeners can start to process messages before subscribing all child topics are completed in "multi topics" (e.g. partitioned, list, regex) cases.
If acknowledge() is called in messageListeners (it is very typical usage) before subscribing completion, it will fail with AlreadyClosed error since the state of the parent consumer is not Ready yet:

void MultiTopicsConsumerImpl::acknowledgeAsync(const MessageId& msgId, ResultCallback callback) {
if (state_ != Ready) {
interceptors_->onAcknowledge(Consumer(shared_from_this()), ResultAlreadyClosed, msgId);
callback(ResultAlreadyClosed);
return;
}

That results in ack holes, and finally full backlog.

Modifications

  • MultiTopicsConsumerImpl: Pause messageListeners at first by setting startPaused to true and resume them after subscribing all child topics are completed.
  • ConsumerImpl: Delete unused code.
    • It tries to skip sendFlowPermitsToBroker() at the first connection.
      • The motivation seems same as this PR, i.e. to prevent messageListeners from starting before subscribing completion.
    • However, actually it does not work so far, the variable firstTime looks always false at
      if (consumerTopicType_ == NonPartitioned || !firstTime) {
      because it becomes false at
      if (firstTime) {
      firstTime = false;
      }
      • Also it is static variable in a method that is shared by all ConsumerImpl instances, whereas it has no chance of returning to true once it becomes false.
    • It seems better that child consumers don't have to care about their parents and are completely independent of them.

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[Bug] Ack failure on message listener in multi topics consumer
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