Ewen Cheslack-Postava created KAFKA-1842:
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             Summary: New producer/consumer should support configurable 
connection timeouts
                 Key: KAFKA-1842
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1842
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: clients
    Affects Versions: 0.8.2
            Reporter: Ewen Cheslack-Postava


During discussion of KAFKA-1642 it became clear that the current connection 
handling code for the new clients doesn't give enough flexibility in some 
failure cases. We need to support connection timeouts that are configurable via 
Kafka configs rather than relying on the underlying TCP stack's default 
settings. This would give the user control over how aggressively they want to 
try new servers when trying to fetch metadata (currently dependent on the 
underlying OS timeouts and some implementation details of 
NetworkClient.maybeUpdateMetadata and NetworkClient.leastLoadedNode), which is 
the specific issue that came up in KAFKA-1642. More generally it gives better 
control over how fast the user sees failures when there are network failures.



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