Use kafka transactions to make spring-kafka tests more stable (#4024)

* Use kafka transactions to make spring-kafka tests more stable

* manual acks

* another approach: batch error handler that immediately recovers

* another try

* yet another try

* do nothing error handler

* spotless

instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/javaagent/src/test/groovy/DoNothingBatchErrorHandler.groovy

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerRecords
+import org.springframework.kafka.listener.BatchErrorHandler
+
+class DoNothingBatchErrorHandler implements BatchErrorHandler {
+  @Override
+  void handle(Exception thrownException, ConsumerRecords<?, ?> data) {
+  }
+}

instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/javaagent/src/test/groovy/SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest.groovy

@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@ class SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
       "spring.jmx.enabled"                         : false,
       "spring.main.web-application-type"           : "none",
       "spring.kafka.bootstrap-servers"             : kafka.bootstrapServers,
-      "spring.kafka.consumer.auto-offset-reset": "earliest",
+      "spring.kafka.consumer.auto-offset-reset"    : "earliest",
       "spring.kafka.consumer.linger-ms"            : 10,
+      // wait 1s between poll() calls
+      "spring.kafka.listener.idle-between-polls"   : 1000,
+      "spring.kafka.producer.transaction-id-prefix": "test-",
     ])
     applicationContext = app.run()
   }
@@ -58,9 +61,11 @@ class SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
 
     when:
     runWithSpan("producer") {
-      kafkaTemplate.send("testTopic", "10", "testSpan1")
+      // wrapping in a transaction is needed to remove the possibility of messages being picked up separately by the consumer
-      kafkaTemplate.send("testTopic", "20", "testSpan2")
+      kafkaTemplate.executeInTransaction({ ops ->
-      kafkaTemplate.flush()
+        ops.send("testTopic", "10", "testSpan1")
+        ops.send("testTopic", "20", "testSpan2")
+      })
     }
 
     then:
@@ -152,8 +157,9 @@ class SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
 
     when:
     runWithSpan("producer") {
-      kafkaTemplate.send("testTopic", "10", "error")
+      kafkaTemplate.executeInTransaction({ ops ->
-      kafkaTemplate.flush()
+        ops.send("testTopic", "10", "error")
+      })
     }
 
     then:
@@ -240,6 +246,8 @@ class SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
     ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> batchFactory(
       ConsumerFactory<String, String> consumerFactory) {
       ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> factory = new ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<>()
+      // do not retry failed records
+      factory.setBatchErrorHandler(new DoNothingBatchErrorHandler())
       factory.setConsumerFactory(consumerFactory)
       factory.setBatchListener(true)
       factory.setAutoStartup(true)