Add flush method to writer

writer.go

@@ -548,6 +548,33 @@ func (w *Writer) spawn(f func()) {
 	}()
 }
 
+// Flush writes all currently buffered messages to the kafka cluster. This will
+// block until all messages in the batch has been written to kafka, or until the
+// context is canceled.
+func (w *Writer) Flush(ctx context.Context) error {
+	w.mutex.Lock()
+
+	// flush all writers
+	for _, writer := range w.writers {
+		writer.flush()
+	}
+
+	w.mutex.Unlock()
+	done := make(chan struct{})
+
+	go func() {
+		w.group.Wait()
+		close(done)
+	}()
+
+	select {
+	case <-done:
+		return nil
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+		return ctx.Err()
+	}
+}
+
 // Close flushes pending writes, and waits for all writes to complete before
 // returning. Calling Close also prevents new writes from being submitted to
 // the writer, further calls to WriteMessages and the like will fail with
@@ -1184,7 +1211,7 @@ func (ptw *partitionWriter) writeBatch(batch *writeBatch) {
 	batch.complete(err)
 }
 
-func (ptw *partitionWriter) close() {
+func (ptw *partitionWriter) flush() {
 	ptw.mutex.Lock()
 	defer ptw.mutex.Unlock()
 
@@ -1194,7 +1221,10 @@ func (ptw *partitionWriter) close() {
 		ptw.currBatch = nil
 		batch.trigger()
 	}
+}
 
+func (ptw *partitionWriter) close() {
+	ptw.flush()
 	ptw.queue.Close()
 }
 

writer_test.go

@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ func TestWriter(t *testing.T) {
 			scenario: "closing a writer right after creating it returns promptly with no error",
 			function: testWriterClose,
 		},
-
 		{
 			scenario: "writing 1 message through a writer using round-robin balancing produces 1 message to the first partition",
 			function: testWriterRoundRobin1,
@@ -130,6 +129,10 @@ func TestWriter(t *testing.T) {
 			scenario: "writing a batch of messages",
 			function: testWriterBatchSize,
 		},
+		{
+			scenario: "writing and flushing a batch of messages",
+			function: testWriterBatchSize,
+		},
 
 		{
 			scenario: "writing messages with a small batch byte size",
@@ -450,7 +453,7 @@ func readPartition(topic string, partition int, offset int64) (msgs []Message, e
 	}
 }
 
-func testWriterBatchBytes(t *testing.T) {
+func tetsWriterFlush(t *testing.T) {
 	topic := makeTopic()
 	createTopic(t, topic, 1)
 	defer deleteTopic(t, topic)
@@ -461,9 +464,11 @@ func testWriterBatchBytes(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	w := newTestWriter(WriterConfig{
-		Topic:        topic,
-		BatchBytes:   50,
-		BatchTimeout: math.MaxInt32 * time.Second,
+		Topic: topic,
+		// Set the batch timeout to a large value to avoid the timeout
+		BatchSize:    1000,
+		BatchBytes:   1000000,
+		BatchTimeout: 1000 * time.Second,
 		Balancer:     &RoundRobin{},
 	})
 	defer w.Close()
@@ -480,6 +485,11 @@ func testWriterBatchBytes(t *testing.T) {
 		return
 	}
 
+	if err := w.Flush(ctx); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("flush error %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+
 	if w.Stats().Writes != 2 {
 		t.Error("didn't create expected batches")
 		return
@@ -503,6 +513,59 @@ func testWriterBatchBytes(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func testWriterBatchBytes(t *testing.T) {
+	topic := makeTopic()
+	createTopic(t, topic, 1)
+	defer deleteTopic(t, topic)
+
+	offset, err := readOffset(topic, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	w := newTestWriter(WriterConfig{
+		Topic:        topic,
+		BatchBytes:   50,
+		BatchTimeout: math.MaxInt32 * time.Second,
+		Balancer:     &RoundRobin{},
+	})
+	defer w.Close()
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+	if err := w.WriteMessages(ctx, []Message{
+		{Value: []byte("M0")},
+		{Value: []byte("M1")},
+		{Value: []byte("M2")},
+		{Value: []byte("M3")},
+	}...); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	if w.Stats().Writes != 1 {
+		t.Error("didn't create expected batches")
+		return
+	}
+	msgs, err := readPartition(topic, 0, offset)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Error("error reading partition", err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	if len(msgs) != 4 {
+		t.Error("bad messages in partition", msgs)
+		return
+	}
+
+	for i, m := range msgs {
+		if string(m.Value) == "M"+strconv.Itoa(i) {
+			continue
+		}
+		t.Error("bad messages in partition", string(m.Value))
+	}
+}
+
 func testWriterBatchSize(t *testing.T) {
 	topic := makeTopic()
 	createTopic(t, topic, 1)