Handling Exceptions

@FunctionalInterface
public interface KafkaListenerErrorHandler {

    Object handleError(Message<?> message, ListenerExecutionFailedException exception) throws Exception;

}

@Bean
public KafkaListenerErrorHandler eh(DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer recoverer) {
    return (msg, ex) -> {
        if (msg.getHeaders().get(KafkaHeaders.DELIVERY_ATTEMPT, Integer.class) > 9) {
            recoverer.accept(msg.getHeaders().get(KafkaHeaders.RAW_DATA, ConsumerRecord.class), ex);
            return "FAILED";
        }
        throw ex;
    };
}

Object handleError(Message<?> message, ListenerExecutionFailedException exception, Consumer<?, ?> consumer);

Object handleError(Message<?> message, ListenerExecutionFailedException exception,
			Consumer<?, ?> consumer, @Nullable Acknowledgment ack);

/**
 * Set the level at which the exception thrown by this handler is logged.
 * @param logLevel the level (default ERROR).
 */
public void setLogLevel(KafkaException.Level logLevel) {
    ...
}

@Bean
public KafkaListenerContainerFactory<ConcurrentMessageListenerContainer<Integer, String>>
        kafkaListenerContainerFactory() {
    ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<Integer, String> factory =
            new ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<>();
    ...
    factory.setCommonErrorHandler(myErrorHandler);
    ...
    return factory;
}

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

@Bean
public ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> kafkaListenerContainerFactory() {
    ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> factory = new ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<>();
    factory.setConsumerFactory(consumerFactory());
    factory.getContainerProperties().setAckMode(AckMode.RECORD);
    factory.setCommonErrorHandler(new DefaultErrorHandler(new FixedBackOff(1000L, 2L)));
    return factory;
}

@KafkaListener(id = "recovering", topics = "someTopic")
public void listen(List<Thing> things) {
    for (int i = 0; i < records.size(); i++) {
        try {
            process(things.get(i));
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            throw new BatchListenerFailedException("Failed to process", i);
        }
    }
}

@Bean
public DefaultErrorHandler errorHandler(ConsumerRecordRecoverer recoverer) {
    DefaultErrorHandler handler = new DefaultErrorHandler(recoverer);
    handler.addNotRetryableExceptions(IllegalArgumentException.class);
    return handler;
}

@FunctionalInterface
public interface RetryListener {

    void failedDelivery(ConsumerRecord<?, ?> record, Exception ex, int deliveryAttempt);

    default void recovered(ConsumerRecord<?, ?> record, Exception ex) {
    }

    default void recoveryFailed(ConsumerRecord<?, ?> record, Exception original, Exception failure) {
    }

    default void failedDelivery(ConsumerRecords<?, ?> records, Exception ex, int deliveryAttempt) {
    }

    default void recovered(ConsumerRecords<?, ?> records, Exception ex) {
    }

	default void recoveryFailed(ConsumerRecords<?, ?> records, Exception original, Exception failure) {
	}

}

handler.setBackOffFunction((record, ex) -> { ... });

@KafkaListener(id = "test", topics = "topic")
void listen(List<Thing> in, @Header(KafkaHeaders.CONVERSION_FAILURES) List<ConversionException> exceptions) {
    for (int i = 0; i < in.size(); i++) {
        Foo foo = in.get(i);
        if (foo == null && exceptions.get(i) != null) {
            throw new BatchListenerFailedException("Conversion error", exceptions.get(i), i);
        }
        process(foo);
    }
}

AfterRollbackProcessor<String, String> processor =
    new DefaultAfterRollbackProcessor((record, exception) -> {
        // recover after 3 failures, with no back off - e.g. send to a dead-letter topic
    }, new FixedBackOff(0L, 2L));

handler.setBackOffFunction((record, ex) -> { ... });

@Bean
public DefaultAfterRollbackProcessor errorHandler(BiConsumer<ConsumerRecord<?, ?>, Exception> recoverer) {
    DefaultAfterRollbackProcessor processor = new DefaultAfterRollbackProcessor(recoverer);
    processor.addNotRetryableException(IllegalArgumentException.class);
    return processor;
}

@FunctionalInterface
public interface RetryListener {

    void failedDelivery(ConsumerRecord<?, ?> record, Exception ex, int deliveryAttempt);

    default void recovered(ConsumerRecord<?, ?> record, Exception ex) {
    }

    default void recoveryFailed(ConsumerRecord<?, ?> record, Exception original, Exception failure) {
    }

}

int delivery = ByteBuffer.wrap(record.headers()
    .lastHeader(KafkaHeaders.DELIVERY_ATTEMPT).value())
    .getInt();

@KafkaListener(id = "something", topics = "topic", filter = "someFilter",
        info = "this is the something listener")
public void listen(@Payload Thing thing,
        @Header(KafkaHeaders.LISTENER_INFO) String listenerInfo) {
    ...
}

@KafkaListener(id = "list2", topics = "someTopic", containerFactory = "batchFactory",
        info = "info for batch")
public void listen(List<Thing> list,
        @Header(KafkaHeaders.RECEIVED_KEY) List<Integer> keys,
        @Header(KafkaHeaders.RECEIVED_PARTITION) List<Integer> partitions,
        @Header(KafkaHeaders.RECEIVED_TOPIC) List<String> topics,
        @Header(KafkaHeaders.OFFSET) List<Long> offsets,
        @Header(KafkaHeaders.LISTENER_INFO) String info) {
            ...
}

DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer recoverer = new DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(template,
        (r, e) -> {
            if (e instanceof FooException) {
                return new TopicPartition(r.topic() + ".Foo.failures", r.partition());
            }
            else {
                return new TopicPartition(r.topic() + ".other.failures", r.partition());
            }
        });
CommonErrorHandler errorHandler = new DefaultErrorHandler(recoverer, new FixedBackOff(0L, 2L));

@Bean
public DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer publisher(KafkaTemplate<?, ?> stringTemplate,
        KafkaTemplate<?, ?> bytesTemplate) {
    Map<Class<?>, KafkaTemplate<?, ?>> templates = new LinkedHashMap<>();
    templates.put(String.class, stringTemplate);
    templates.put(byte[].class, bytesTemplate);
    return new DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(templates);
}

@Bean
public ErrorHandler eh(KafkaOperations<String, String> template) {
    return new DefaultErrorHandler(new DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(template,
            (rec, ex) -> {
                org.apache.kafka.common.header.Header retries = rec.headers().lastHeader("retries");
                if (retries == null) {
                    retries = new RecordHeader("retries", new byte[] { 1 });
                    rec.headers().add(retries);
                }
                else {
                    retries.value()[0]++;
                }
                return retries.value()[0] > 5
                        ? new TopicPartition("topic.DLT", rec.partition())
                        : new TopicPartition("topic", rec.partition());
            }), new FixedBackOff(0L, 0L));
}

DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer recoverer = new DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(template);
recoverer.excludeHeaders(HeaderNames.HeadersToAdd.EX_STACKTRACE);

DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer recoverer = new DeadLetterPublishingRecoverer(template);
recoverer.setExceptionHeadersCreator((kafkaHeaders, exception, isKey, headerNames) -> {
    kafkaHeaders.add(new RecordHeader(..., ...));
});

@Bean
DefaultErrorHandler handler() {
    ExponentialBackOffWithMaxRetries bo = new ExponentialBackOffWithMaxRetries(6);
    bo.setInitialInterval(1_000L);
    bo.setMultiplier(2.0);
    bo.setMaxInterval(10_000L);
    return new DefaultErrorHandler(myRecoverer, bo);
}