Hi - I noticed that if a kafka cluster goes away entirely, the high-level consumer will endlessly try to fetch metadata until the cluster comes back up, never bubbling the error condition up to the application. While I see a setting to control the interval at which it reconnects, I don't see anything to tell it when to just give up. I think it would be useful if there were a way for the application to detect this condition and possibly take some sort of action. Either a max-retries setting and/or some sort of flag that can be tested after a timeout. Is that capability already there? Is there a known workaround for this?
Thanks, Paul
