When defining the Kafka assets in DevTest 10.6, the customer found the problems for defining the value with "DevTest Property Reference" style.
If the property for "Bootstrap Servers" is defined additional config file(not project.config),
For example, create a new config file named aa.config and define the property named BOOTSTRAPSERVERS_LIST like "<Server1>:<Port1>,<server2>:<Port2>. and make active the aa.config file.
then error messages are occurred when verifying like:
STACK TRACE
org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Failed to construct kafka consumer
at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:825)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:631)
at com.itko.lisa.messaging.providers.kafka.asset.KafkaUtils$DefaultKafkaImpl.createConsumer(KafkaUtils.java:790)
at com.itko.lisa.messaging.providers.kafka.asset.KafkaUtils.createKafkaConsumer(KafkaUtils.java:82)
at com.itko.lisa.messaging.providers.kafka.asset.KafkaUtils.verifyConnection(KafkaUtils.java:498)
at com.itko.lisa.messaging.providers.kafka.asset.KafkaConfigAsset.verifyInstance(KafkaConfigAsset.java:247)
at com.itko.lisa.messaging.providers.kafka.asset.KafkaConfigAsset.verifyInstance(KafkaConfigAsset.java:45)
at com.itko.lisa.asset.AssetUtils.verifyRuntimeAsset(AssetUtils.java:1300)
at com.itko.lisa.asset.ui.AssetEditor$5.run(AssetEditor.java:306)
at com.itko.lisa.asset.ui.ProgressLog$Worker.doInBackground(ProgressLog.java:142)
at com.itko.lisa.asset.ui.ProgressLog$Worker.doInBackground(ProgressLog.java:100)
at javax.swing.SwingWorker$1.call(SwingWorker.java:295)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at javax.swing.SwingWorker.run(SwingWorker.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigException: Invalid url in bootstrap.servers: {{BOOTSTRAPSERVERS_LIST}}
at org.apache.kafka.clients.ClientUtils.parseAndValidateAddresses(ClientUtils.java:59)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.ClientUtils.parseAndValidateAddresses(ClientUtils.java:48)
at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:737)
... 16 more
Release : 10.6
Component : CA Service Virtualization
This is a defect for DevTest 10.6 GA.
Please contact Broadcom support to get a patch named patch_DE503511_10.6.0_GA.jar.