Principle:Fede1024 Rust rdkafka Transactional Producer Setup
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| Last Updated | 2026-02-07 19:00 GMT |
Overview
A configuration pattern for creating idempotent, transactional Kafka producers that support exactly-once semantics.
Description
Transactional Producer Setup configures a Kafka producer for exactly-once semantics (EOS). Two key configuration parameters are required: enable.idempotence=true ensures each message is written exactly once to each partition (deduplication at the broker), and transactional.id is a unique identifier that enables the transaction coordinator to fence zombie producers.
When a producer with the same transactional.id starts, the coordinator aborts any pending transactions from the previous instance, preventing duplicate processing. This is the foundation for Kafka's exactly-once guarantee in consume-transform-produce pipelines.
Transactional producers use BaseProducer rather than FutureProducer because transactions require synchronous control over the transaction lifecycle (begin, send, commit/abort).
Usage
Use this principle when you need exactly-once semantics in a consume-transform-produce pipeline. The producer must be configured with idempotence and a unique transactional ID before initialization.
Theoretical Basis
Idempotent production assigns sequence numbers per partition:
Pseudo-code logic:
// Abstract algorithm
config.set("enable.idempotence", "true") // broker deduplicates
config.set("transactional.id", "my-txn-id") // enables fencing
producer = config.create::<BaseProducer>()
producer.init_transactions(timeout) // register with coordinator
The transactional.id creates a logical identity. If a new producer claims the same ID, the old one is fenced (its commits will be rejected).