Hi, see from the javadocs: > timeout - The time, in milliseconds, spent waiting in poll if data is not available in the buffer. If 0, returns immediately with any records that are available currently in the buffer, else returns empty. Must not be negative.
for a network problem it will return an exception. I hope it helps, -- Pere Missatge de Mark Horton <m...@nostromo.net> del dia dl., 4 de febr. 2019 a les 18:27: > This is a theoretical question. I have not seen this behavior but > wanted to know if it was possible. > > If consumer.poll() returns EMPTY, does that always mean no records are > currently available? In other words, let's say there are some records > in a partition. Could poll() return EMPTY if there was a network > problem that caused it to timeout before it could return that record? > > Mark > -- Pere Urbon-Bayes Software Architect http://www.purbon.com https://twitter.com/purbon https://www.linkedin.com/in/purbon/
