How to publish Spring Kafka DLQ in 2.5.4 version

Question

need your help and guidance on this.

I was using 2.2.X version spring-kafka in my current project.

The error handling that I created looks like this:

@Bean("kafkaConsumer")
public ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, Map<String, Object>> eventKafkaConsumer() {
    ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, Map<String, Object>> factory = new ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<>();
    factory.setErrorHandler(new SeekToCurrentErrorHandler(createDeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(), 3));
    return factory;
}

public DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer createDeadLetterPublishingRecoverer() {
    return new DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(getEventKafkaTemplate(),
            (record, ex) -> new TopicPartition("topic-undelivered", -1));
}

And then I upgraded all my project dependency version, such as spring-boot and the spring-kafka into the latest one: 2.5.4 RELEASE

I found that some of the methods were deprecated and changed.

SeekToCurrentErrorHandler

SeekToCurrentErrorHandler errorHandler =
new SeekToCurrentErrorHandler((record, exception) -> {
    // recover after 3 failures, woth no back off - e.g. send to a dead-letter topic
}, new FixedBackOff(0L, 2L));

My question is, how to produce the DLQ with these configurations:

EDITED

@Bean("kafkaConsumer")
public ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, Map<String, Object>> kafkaConsumer() {
    ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, Map<String, Object>> factory = new ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<>();
    factory.setConsumerFactory(consumerFactory());
    factory.setConcurrency(consumerConcurrencyCount);
    factory.setErrorHandler(errorHandler());
    return factory;
}

public SeekToCurrentErrorHandler errorHandler() {
    return new SeekToCurrentErrorHandler(
            deadLetterPublishingRecoverer(),
            new FixedBackOff(0L, 2L)
    );
}

public DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer deadLetterPublishingRecoverer() {
    return new DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(
            getEventKafkaTemplate(),
            (record, ex) -> {
                if (ex.getCause() instanceof BusinessException || ex.getCause() instanceof TechnicalException) {
                    return new TopicPartition("topic-undelivered", -1);
                }

                return new TopicPartition("topic-fail", -1);
            });
}

public KafkaOperations<String, Object> getEventKafkaTemplate() { // producer to DLQ
    return new KafkaTemplate<>(new DefaultKafkaProducerFactory<>(producerConfigs()));
}

This configurations work, thanks to Gary!

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

It's not clear what you mean by

The problem is, in the documentation, it's still using the old method, which is deprecated for 2.5.X version

The KafkaOperations is an interface that the KafkaTemplate implements; the only change you need to make is to change the maxAttempts to a BackOff ...

@Bean("kafkaConsumer")
public ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, Map<String, Object>> eventKafkaConsumer() {
    ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, Map<String, Object>> factory = new ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<>();
    factory.setErrorHandler(new SeekToCurrentErrorHandler(createDeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(), new FixedBackOff(0, 2L));
    return factory;
}

public DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer createDeadLetterPublishingRecoverer() {
    return new DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(getEventKafkaTemplate(),
            (record, ex) -> new TopicPartition("topic-undelivered", -1));
}