GitHub user rajinisivaram opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2608
KAFKA-4779: Request metadata in consumer if partitions unavailable If leader node of one more more partitions in a consumer subscription are temporarily unavailable, request metadata refresh so that partitions skipped for assignment dont have to wait for metadata expiry before reassignment. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rajinisivaram/kafka KAFKA-4779-consumer-metadata Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2608.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2608 ---- commit af5ef2b98314653de5ae098e8c45eb84b81685e7 Author: Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@googlemail.com> Date: 2017-02-28T12:09:44Z KAFKA-4779: Request metadata in consumer if partitions unavailable ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---