Hi there. Once again, I don't think I could get the docs on another topic.

So my nodejs client connects to the broker and the first thing it does is
store the topic metadata:

data received
{
    "brokers": [
        {
            "nodeId": 0,
            "host": "10.139.245.106",
            "port": 9092,
            "byteLength": 24
        },
        {
            "nodeId": 1,
            "host": "localhost",
            "port": 9093,
            "byteLength": 19
        }
    ],
    "topicMetadata": [
        {
            "topicErrorCode": 0,
            "topicName": "foozbar",
            "partitions": [
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        0
                    ],
                    "isr": [
                        0
                    ],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 0,
                    "partitionId": 0,
                    "leader": 0,
                    "byteLength": 26
                },
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        1
                    ],
                    "isr": [
                        1
                    ],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 0,
                    "partitionId": 1,
                    "leader": 1,
                    "byteLength": 26
                },
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        0
                    ],
                    "isr": [
                        0
                    ],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 0,
                    "partitionId": 2,
                    "leader": 0,
                    "byteLength": 26
                },
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        1
                    ],
                    "isr": [
                        1
                    ],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 0,
                    "partitionId": 3,
                    "leader": 1,
                    "byteLength": 26
                },
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        0
                    ],
                    "isr": [
                        0
                    ],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 0,
                    "partitionId": 4,
                    "leader": 0,
                    "byteLength": 26
                }
            ],
            "byteLength": 145
        }
    ],
    "responseSize": 200,
    "correlationId": -1000
}

Ok, so far so good. So I kill node 0 on purpose. Trying to simulate a
broker failure, and then I fetch metadata again:

data received
{
    "brokers": [
        {
            "nodeId": 0,
            "host": "10.139.245.106",
            "port": 9092,
            "byteLength": 24
        },
        {
            "nodeId": 1,
            "host": "localhost",
            "port": 9093,
            "byteLength": 19
        }
    ],
    "topicMetadata": [
        {
            "topicErrorCode": 0,
            "topicName": "foozbar",
            "partitions": [
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        0
                    ],
                    "isr": [],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 5,
                    "partitionId": 0,
                    "leader": -1,
                    "byteLength": 22
                },
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        1
                    ],
                    "isr": [
                        1
                    ],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 0,
                    "partitionId": 1,
                    "leader": 1,
                    "byteLength": 26
                },
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        0
                    ],
                    "isr": [],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 5,
                    "partitionId": 2,
                    "leader": -1,
                    "byteLength": 22
                },
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        1
                    ],
                    "isr": [
                        1
                    ],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 0,
                    "partitionId": 3,
                    "leader": 1,
                    "byteLength": 26
                },
                {
                    "replicas": [
                        0
                    ],
                    "isr": [],
                    "partitionErrorCode": 5,
                    "partitionId": 4,
                    "leader": -1,
                    "byteLength": 22
                }
            ],
            "byteLength": 133
        }
    ],
    "responseSize": 188,
    "correlationId": -1000
}

Well, I can see from partition metadata that some partions have no leader
(-1), but my problem is that I actually rely on the brokers list to create
a pool of connections. And even when the broker 0 is down, I still get it
back from the metadata. Is this what is expected? I know it could be that
brokers are only a list of all places where that topic could be found, but
in that case couldn't we at least have a flag indicating wether that broker
is online or not?

Regards



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