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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #6310

Extract the Kafka client migration from #6286 for the existing synchronous consumer.

What is changed and how it works?

  • Use franz-go for polling, partition metadata lookup, and Kafka records. Keep earliest reset, eager range assignment, and synchronous manual commits of records acknowledged by the writer.
  • Make idle polling respond to context cancellation and process available records when another partition returns a fetch error.
  • Share TLS configuration between metadata and consumption, preserve the CA/certificate/key flags, and reject invalid credentials.
  • Remove confluent-kafka-go and the Kafka consumer image's SASL build/runtime dependencies.
  • Add tests for topic normalization, TLS configuration failures, and cancellation; adapt the existing writer tests to kgo.Record.

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Tests

  • Unit test: go test --race --tags=intest ./cmd/kafka-consumer -count=1
  • Build: make kafka_consumer
  • Formatting: make fmt FILES='cmd/kafka-consumer/consumer.go cmd/kafka-consumer/consumer_test.go cmd/kafka-consumer/writer.go cmd/kafka-consumer/writer_test.go'
  • Dependency/whitespace checks: go mod tidy -diff, git diff --check

Broker integration and container-image tests are left to CI; /test all will be requested.

Questions

Will it cause performance regression or break compatibility?

The CLI flags, group assignment strategy, reset policy, and writer-controlled commit decisions remain unchanged. Performance has not been benchmarked. TLS also supports client certificates with system roots when no CA file is supplied. The dependency upgrade requires Go 1.25, which this repository already uses.

Do you need to update user documentation, design documentation or monitoring documentation?

No new flags or deployment steps are introduced.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Kafka consumer and utility tools now use an updated Kafka client implementation.
    • Added support for TLS certificate authorities, client certificates, and system root certificates.
    • Improved handling of partition discovery, message commits, fetch errors, and cancellation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Kafka topic and message utilities now validate topic-operation errors more consistently.
  • Breaking Changes

    • SASL support has been removed from the Kafka consumer container.

Extract the Kafka client migration from PR pingcap#6286 while retaining the
synchronous writer and manual offset commits. Support cancellation
during idle polling and share TLS options with metadata requests.

Remove the SASL runtime dependency from the consumer image and cover
TLS configuration and cancellation in unit tests.
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The PR replaces Confluent Kafka and Sarama usage with franz-go. It adds TLS and cancellation handling, preserves manual commits and earliest-offset consumption, updates writer types and tests, removes SASL image requirements, and migrates Kafka utilities.

Changes

Kafka client migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Client and image foundation
go.mod, deployments/kafka-consumer.Dockerfile
The dependency manifest adds franz-go and removes Confluent Kafka. The image no longer installs or links SASL libraries.
Consumer construction and polling
cmd/kafka-consumer/consumer.go, cmd/kafka-consumer/consumer_test.go
The consumer builds franz-go options, configures TLS, resolves topic partitions, polls records, commits records, and returns context cancellation while idle.
Writer record and offset adaptation
cmd/kafka-consumer/writer.go, cmd/kafka-consumer/writer_test.go
Writer methods now use kgo.Record and int64 offsets. Tests use franz-go record fields and plain integer offsets.
Kafka utility migration
tests/utils/kafka_dump/main.go, tests/utils/kafka_topic/main.go
The dump utility uses franz-go fetches. The topic utility uses franz-go client and admin APIs for configuration and topic creation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Consumer
  participant FranzGo
  participant Kafka
  Consumer->>FranzGo: Create client with TLS and consumer options
  FranzGo->>Kafka: Poll fetches
  Kafka-->>FranzGo: Return records or fetch errors
  FranzGo-->>Consumer: Return records
  Consumer->>FranzGo: Commit acknowledged records
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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The changes to tests/utils/kafka_dump/main.go and tests/utils/kafka_topic/main.go replace Sarama with franz-go in separate Kafka utilities. Issue #6310 covers the cmd/kafka-consumer utility and … Remove the unrelated changes to tests/utils/kafka_dump/main.go and tests/utils/kafka_topic/main.go, or link them to an issue that explicitly requires these utility migrations.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 29.41% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 6 files. (2 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: replacing librdkafka with franz-go in the Kafka consumer.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required issue reference, problem statement, implementation summary, tests, compatibility and documentation answers, and release note.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #6310 requires a Go Kafka client, removal of librdkafka/SASL dependencies, preservation of manual commits, earliest offset reset, range assignment, TLS flags, and CLI use, plus prompt cancellati…
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The changes to tests/utils/kafka_dump/main.go and tests/utils/kafka_topic/main.go replace Sarama with franz-go in separate Kafka utilities. Issue #6310 covers the cmd/kafka-consumer utility and removal of its librdkafka dependency. These two utility migrations do not implement that requirement or provide tests for it.

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cmd/kafka-consumer/consumer.go (1)

107-124: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the last metadata error for the failure path.

The loop discards the error from admin.Metadata and the topic-level detail.Err. After 31 attempts, the returned error names only the operation and the topic. An operator then cannot tell a TLS handshake failure from a missing topic. Store the last cause and include it in the retry log and in the returned error.

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 	for _, topic := range consumerTopics(o) {
 		found := false
+		var lastErr error
 		for i := range 31 {
 			ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 3*time.Second)
 			metadata, err := admin.Metadata(ctx, topic)
 			cancel()
 			if err == nil {
-				if detail, ok := metadata.Topics[topic]; ok && detail.Err == nil {
+				detail, ok := metadata.Topics[topic]
+				if ok && detail.Err == nil {
 					numPartitions := int32(len(detail.Partitions))
 					log.Info("get partition number of topic",
 						zap.String("topic", topic),
 						zap.Int32("partitionNum", numPartitions))
 					maxPartitionNum = max(maxPartitionNum, numPartitions)
 					found = true
 					break
 				}
+				lastErr = detail.Err
+			} else {
+				lastErr = err
 			}
-			log.Info("retry get partition number", zap.String("topic", topic), zap.Int("retryTime", i))
+			log.Info("retry get partition number", zap.String("topic", topic),
+				zap.Int("retryTime", i), zap.Error(lastErr))
 			time.Sleep(time.Second)
 		}
 		if !found {
-			return 0, errors.ErrKafkaAdminAPI.GenWithStackByArgs("get partition number", topic)
+			return 0, errors.WrapError(errors.ErrKafkaAdminAPI, lastErr, "get partition number", topic)
 		}
 	}

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In `@cmd/kafka-consumer/consumer.go` around lines 107 - 124, Update the topic
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