Thanks Guozhang and Jun for your replies.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:06 PM, harikiran <harihawk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey! Did anyone get a chance to read this?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:26 AM 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
>>
>

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