Github user mxm commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/992#discussion_r37879401 --- Diff: flink-staging/flink-streaming/flink-streaming-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/functions/source/SocketTextStreamFunction.java --- @@ -42,11 +42,13 @@ private boolean retryForever; private Socket socket; private static final int CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_TIME = 0; - private static final int CONNECTION_RETRY_SLEEP = 1000; + public static int CONNECTION_RETRY_SLEEP = 1000; --- End diff -- This shouldn't be modifiable by everyone. Please make it just package-visible by removing the `public` modifier. Also, please keep the `final` modifier because the current implementation just lets the number of retries be configurable with a fixed 1 second retry rate. This is also documented in the user-facing API methods on DataStream.
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