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Discover how to configure your Spring Integration flow to ensure that each listener thread in your Kafka application processes messages from only one partition, avoiding multi-partition batch processing issues.
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How to Ensure One Thread Per Partition in Spring Kafka Integration: A Complete Guide

When working with Kafka in Spring Integration, particularly with multiple partitions, you might encounter unexpected processing behaviors. One common issue arises when configuring listener threads: you may find that a listener thread processes messages from multiple partitions rather than being dedicated to a single partition. This can lead to inefficiencies and complications in your message handling. In this guide, we’ll explore why this happens and how to configure your application correctly to ensure that each listener thread processes messages from only one partition.

Understanding the Default Behavior

Kafka Consumer Groups

Kafka employs the concept of "consumer groups," where each thread (consumer) is designed to read messages from a specified partition. By default, when you set the concurrency level to match the number of partitions, you might expect one thread per partition. However, under certain circumstances, threads can end up consuming messages from multiple partitions.

The Issue at Hand

When setting up a Spring Integration flow with concurrency equal to the total number of partitions, it is possible that one of your threads will process a batch containing messages from different partitions. This behavior is unexpected, especially when your data is partitioned based on an identifier meant to restrict concurrent processing to the same ID across different threads.

The Solution: Manual Partition Assignment

Why Manual Assignment?

If you want to maintain strict control over which consumer reads from which partition (making sure that each thread only processes a specific partition), you'll need to implement a manual assignment strategy. This approach allows you to create dedicated channel adapters for each partition.

Implementing Manual Assignment

Define Your Channel Adapter:
You will start by creating channel adapters that point directly to each specific partition. Here’s a skeletal outline of the code necessary for this configuration:

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Create Specific Channel Adapters for Each Partition:
You will need to set up multiple channel adapters pointing to specific partitions. For three partitions in your topic, your setup might look like this:

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Emitting to a Common Message Channel:
All these channel adapters can emit messages to the same MessageChannel. This allows you to process all the messages efficiently, while keeping strict control over which messages each thread handles.

Conclusion

By switching to manual partition assignment, you gain finer control over the message processing in your Spring Integration Kafka flow. Each listener thread can now be dedicated to a single partition, which helps maintain data integrity and optimizes performance. This strategy ensures that your application behaves as expected, even during situations like rebalances.

Feel free to adjust your setup according to your application’s needs, but this structured approach should set you firmly on the right path to more efficient Kafka message processing.