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Jason Gustafson commented on KAFKA-2691: ---------------------------------------- [~ijuma] To clarify slightly, the indefinite blocking for the consumer occurs when fetching consumer/group metadata, right? I went ahead and patched this in KAFKA-2683, so hopefully this is not an issue anymore. However, we still have the problem that topic metadata authorization errors are only caught and logged by NetworkClient. > Improve handling of authorization failure during metadata refresh > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2691 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2691 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: security > Reporter: Ismael Juma > Fix For: 0.9.0.0 > > > There are two problems, one more severe than the other: > 1. The consumer blocks indefinitely if there is non-transient authorization > failure during metadata refresh due to KAFKA-2391 > 2. We get a TimeoutException instead of an AuthorizationException in the > producer for the same case > If the fix for KAFKA-2391 is to add a timeout, then we will have issue `2` in > both producer and consumer. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)