GitHub user mjsax opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4206
KAFKA-6122: Global Consumer should handle TimeoutException Implements KIP-224: - adding new StreamsConfig `retires` - uses `retires` and `retry.backoff.ms` to handle TimeoutException in GlobalStateManager - adds two new tests to trigger TimeoutException in global consumer - uses `retires` and `retry.backoff.ms` for state directory locking - some minor code cleanup to reduce number of parameters we need to pass around You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/mjsax/kafka kafka-6122-global-consumer-timeout-exception Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4206.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 #4206 ---- commit 8ed6197ad96d359dace78f60b0fbbf080eca5e09 Author: Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io> Date: 2017-11-10T21:02:46Z KAFKA-6122: Global Consumer should handle TimeoutException ---- ---