Hi I am using the 0811 Kafka High level consumer and I have configured " consumer.timeout.ms" to a value that is not -1, say 5000ms.
I create the consumer iterator and invoke hasNext() method on it. Irrespective of whether kafka broker was shutdown or there was no message written to kafka, I see a ConsumerTimeOut exception after 5000ms. My goal is to detect lost connection and reconnect but I cannot figure out a way. Any kind of help is appreciated. Thanks Hari