Kafka enhanced consumer using Thread Workers and consumer.pause().

worker_pool_consumer.py

from kafka import (
    KafkaConsumer, TopicPartition, OffsetAndMetadata, ConsumerRebalanceListener
)
import queue
import threading
import time
import logging

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

NUM_WORKERS = 5


class Shutdown(Exception):
    pass


class WorkerQueue(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self._queue = queue.Queue()
        self._processing_tps = set([])
        self._finished = {}
        self._lock = threading.Lock()

        self._start_shutdown = False

    def put(self, tp, messages):
        assert isinstance(tp, TopicPartition)
        self.check_shutdown()
        with self._lock:
            assert tp not in self._finished
            self._queue.put_nowait((tp, messages))

    def get(self):
        while True:
            self.check_shutdown()
            try:
                return self._queue.get(timeout=1)
            except queue.Empty:
                continue

    def join(self):
        return self._queue.join()

    def finished_processing(self, tp, last_message):
        with self._lock:
            self._queue.task_done()
            self._finished[tp] = last_message

    def get_finished(self):
        with self._lock:
            finished = self._finished
            self._finished = {}
            return finished

    def drop_pending(self):
        """ Remove any records that were not started processing by workers
        """
        while True:
            try:
                self._queue.get_nowait()
            except queue.Empty:
                break
            self._queue.task_done()

    def start_shutdown(self):
        self._start_shutdown = True
        # Clear all items in queue, that has not started processing
        self.drop_pending()

    def check_shutdown(self):
        if self._start_shutdown:
            raise Shutdown()


class RebalanceListener(ConsumerRebalanceListener):

    def __init__(self, worker_queue, consumer):
        self._worker_queue = worker_queue
        self._consumer = consumer

    def _commit_finished(self):
        # Unpause any finished ones and commit offsets
        finished = self._worker_queue.get_finished()
        paused = self._consumer.paused()
        commit_offsets = {}
        if finished:
            log.warn("Committing %d partitions on revoke", len(finished))
            for tp, last_message in finished.items():
                assert tp in paused
                self._consumer.resume(tp)
                commit_offsets[tp] = OffsetAndMetadata(
                    last_message.offset + 1, "")
            self._consumer.commit(commit_offsets)

    def on_partitions_revoked(self, revoked):
        """ Commit all processed items before rebalancing partitions """
        log.info("Revoking %d partitions", len(revoked))
        self._worker_queue.drop_pending()

        # We commit before and after, as we may not succed later. `join()` can
        # take a while.
        self._commit_finished()
        self._worker_queue.join()
        self._commit_finished()

    def on_partitions_assigned(self, assigned):
        log.info("Assigned %d partitions", len(assigned))


def worker_thread(worker_queue):
    try:
        log.info("Starting worker thread %s", threading.get_ident())
        while True:
            tp, messages = worker_queue.get()

            # Process messages
            log.info("Processing %d messages from tp %s on tid=%s",
                     len(messages), tp, threading.get_ident())
            time.sleep(5)

            worker_queue.finished_processing(tp, messages[-1])

    except Shutdown:
        print("Worker thread {} shutdown".format(threading.get_ident()))
    except Exception:
        log.exception("Unexpected error in worker", exc_info=True)


def consumer_thread(worker_queue):
    try:
        log.info("Starting consumer thread")
        # To consume latest messages and auto-commit offsets
        consumer = KafkaConsumer(
            group_id='my-group',
            bootstrap_servers=['localhost:9092'],
            enable_auto_commit=False,
            auto_offset_reset="earliest")

        rebalance_listener = RebalanceListener(worker_queue, consumer)
        consumer.subscribe('my-new-topic', listener=rebalance_listener)

        while True:
            worker_queue.check_shutdown()

            # You can use `max_records` to limit the number of results
            msg_pack = consumer.poll(timeout_ms=1000)
            log.info("poll() returned %s partitions, %s paused",
                     len(msg_pack), len(consumer.paused()))
            for tp, messages in msg_pack.items():
                if messages:
                    worker_queue.put(tp, messages)
                    consumer.pause(tp)

            # Unpause any finished ones and commit offsets
            finished = worker_queue.get_finished()
            paused = consumer.paused()
            commit_offsets = {}
            for tp, last_message in finished.items():
                assert tp in paused
                consumer.resume(tp)
                commit_offsets[tp] = OffsetAndMetadata(
                    last_message.offset + 1, "")
            consumer.commit(commit_offsets)

    except Shutdown:
        log.info("Starting consumer thread shutdown")

        # We have to commit all processed data on normal shutdowns
        worker_queue.join()  # Wait for all `get` data to finish processing
        last_finished = worker_queue.get_finished()
        if last_finished:
            log.warn("Committing for last %s partitions", len(last_finished))
            commit_offsets = {}
            for tp, last_message in last_finished.items():
                commit_offsets[tp] = OffsetAndMetadata(
                    last_message.offset + 1, "")
            consumer.commit(commit_offsets)

        print("Consumer thread shutdown")
    except Exception:
        log.exception("Unexpected error in consumer thread", exc_info=True)
        worker_queue.start_shutdown()

    consumer.close()


def main():
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

    worker_queue = WorkerQueue()
    c_thread = threading.Thread(target=consumer_thread, args=(worker_queue, ))
    c_thread.start()
    w_threads = []
    for i in range(NUM_WORKERS):
        t = threading.Thread(target=worker_thread, args=(worker_queue, ))
        t.start()
        w_threads.append(t)

    try:
        while True:
            time.sleep(1)
            assert c_thread.is_alive()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print("Received ctrl+C, shutting down...")
        # All shutdown will be done through WorkerQueue instance, as the
        # central bus.
        worker_queue.start_shutdown()
        worker_queue.join()
        c_thread.join()
        for w in w_threads:
            w.join()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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