Add flush method to writer

writer.go

@@ -548,6 +548,41 @@ 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()
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+
+	// flush all writers
+	for _, writer := range w.writers {
+		w := writer
+		wg.Add(1)
+		go func() {
+			b := w.flush()
+			<-b.done
+			wg.Done()
+		}()
+	}
+
+	w.mutex.Unlock()
+	done := make(chan struct{})
+
+	go func() {
+		wg.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
@@ -1184,17 +1219,23 @@ func (ptw *partitionWriter) writeBatch(batch *writeBatch) {
 	batch.complete(err)
 }
 
-func (ptw *partitionWriter) close() {
+func (ptw *partitionWriter) flush() *writeBatch {
 	ptw.mutex.Lock()
 	defer ptw.mutex.Unlock()
 
-	if ptw.currBatch != nil {
-		batch := ptw.currBatch
-		ptw.queue.Put(batch)
-		ptw.currBatch = nil
-		batch.trigger()
+	if ptw.currBatch == nil {
+		return nil
 	}
 
+	batch := ptw.currBatch
+	ptw.queue.Put(batch)
+	ptw.currBatch = nil
+	batch.trigger()
+	return batch
+}
+
+func (ptw *partitionWriter) close() {
+	ptw.flush()
 	ptw.queue.Close()
 }
 

writer_test.go

@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ func TestWriter(t *testing.T) {
 			function: testWriterMaxBytes,
 		},
 
+		{
+			scenario: "writing a batch of message and flush",
+			function: testWriterFlush,
+		},
+
 		{
 			scenario: "writing a batch of message based on batch byte size",
 			function: testWriterBatchBytes,
@@ -503,6 +508,67 @@ func testWriterBatchBytes(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func testWriterFlush(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,
+		// Set the batch timeout to a large value to avoid the timeout
+		BatchSize:    1000,
+		BatchBytes:   1000000,
+		BatchTimeout: 1000 * time.Second,
+		Balancer:     &RoundRobin{},
+		Async:        true,
+	})
+	defer w.Close()
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+	if err := w.WriteMessages(ctx, []Message{
+		{Value: []byte("M0")}, // 25 Bytes
+		{Value: []byte("M1")}, // 25 Bytes
+		{Value: []byte("M2")}, // 25 Bytes
+		{Value: []byte("M3")}, // 25 Bytes
+	}...); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	if err := w.Flush(ctx); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("flush error %v", 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)