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[fix][client] Mark PulsarClient closed on shutdown() so new producers and consumers fail fast - #27473
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… and consumers fail fast PulsarClientImpl.shutdown() released the client's resources but left its state Open: only closeAsync() set Closed, after calling shutdown(). So isClosed() stayed false, and the producers, consumers, readers and table views created afterwards passed the state checks and never completed, instead of failing with AlreadyClosedException as they do after close(). shutdown() now moves an open client to Closing before it releases anything, as closeAsync() does, and leaves it Closed. closeAsync() keeps its Open -> Closing -> shutdown() -> Closed sequence.
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Motivation
PulsarClient.shutdown()is documented as an immediate shutdown: it releases all the resources without waiting forongoing operations.
PulsarClientImpl.shutdown()releases them (lookup service, transaction coordinator client, DNSresolver, connection pool, event loop, timer, executors, authentication), but never changes the client's state. Only
closeAsync()does: it moves the state fromOpentoClosing, closes the producers and consumers, callsshutdown(), and then setsClosed.So after a direct
shutdown()the client still says it is open, and the state checks let new work through to thereleased resources:
The creation goes on to the partitioned-metadata lookup on the closed lookup service and never completes. Producers,
consumers, readers and table views all hang this way, where after
close()they fail withAlreadyClosedExceptionright away. In
AdminApiTest, the test methods that used the shared client aftertestNamespaceUnloadBundlehadcalled
pulsarClient.shutdown()hung until their 300 s TestNG timeouts instead of failing at once.Modifications
shutdown()now sets the state itself, the waycloseAsync()does around it:Closingwhileshutdown()releases its resources, andClosedafterwards, also when a releasestep fails (as
closeAsync()setsClosedwhenshutdown()throws).closeAsync()keeps itsOpen→Closing→shutdown()→Closedsequence:shutdown()leaves itsClosingas is, and the
Closedit sets afterwards is already there.isClosed()is true aftershutdown(), as its javadoc (@see #shutdown()) implies. The code that checksisClosed()to stop retrying, such as the v5 DAG watch reconnects and the table view's tail reads, now stops aftershutdown()as it does afterclose().Compatibility:
AlreadyClosedExceptionatonce, as after
close(), instead of never completing.closeAsync()aftershutdown()fails withAlreadyClosedException, like a secondcloseAsync(), andclose()returns without doing anything, as it ignores that exception. Before, they ran the close sequence on the shut-down
client: closing the producers and consumers created before the shutdown, then running
shutdown()a second time.Every caller of
shutdown()in this repository drops the client afterwards (the broker's replication and namespaceclients,
PulsarClientV5.shutdown(), the test base classes), and none of them closes it.shutdown()still doesn't close the producers and consumers created before it, and a secondshutdown()still runs the release steps again. Transactions already failed fast after
shutdown(), which closes the transactioncoordinator client (
CoordinatorClientStateException).V5ClientLifecycleTest.testShutdownDelegatesToV4described v4'sshutdown()as deliberately not setting the client'sstate to
Closed; that sentence is removed. The behavior dates back to the first version of the client.Verifying this change
This change added tests and can be verified as follows:
PulsarClientImplTest.testShutdownClosesClientshuts a client down, then creates a producer, a consumer, a readerand a table view, each of which must fail with
AlreadyClosedExceptionwithin 10 s, and checks thatisClosed()istrue and that
close()doesn't throw. Without the change, the producer creation doesn't complete within the 10 s(
TimeoutException).Also passing locally:
PulsarClientImplTest(22 tests), the otherpulsar-clientunit tests (exceptOAuth2IdpTlsFrameworkClientTest, whose WireMock server couldn't bind port 8080, taken by another process on themachine), the
pulsar-client-v5unit tests,V5ClientLifecycleTest, and./gradlew quickCheck.Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts:
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