That's actually how consumer.timeout.ms works. The iterator only gets an exception is there is no message after the timeout. The error handling of the connection is done in the consumer client library for you.
Thanks, Jun On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:21 PM, harikiran <harihawk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
