Github user ptgoetz commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/254#discussion_r18323164
--- Diff: external/storm-kafka/src/jvm/storm/kafka/SpoutConfig.java ---
@@ -26,8 +26,19 @@
public Integer zkPort = null;
public String zkRoot = null;
public String id = null;
+
+ // setting for how often to save the current kafka offset to ZooKeeper
public long stateUpdateIntervalMs = 2000;
+ // Exponential back-off retry settings. These are used when retrying
messages after a bolt
+ // calls OutputCollector.fail().
+ //
+ // Note: be sure to set backtype.storm.Config.MESSAGE_TIMEOUT_SECS
appropriately to prevent
+ // resubmitting the message while still retrying.
--- End diff --
Thanks for the clarification @rick-kilgore. If we can do something loud and
obnoxious (I.e. Logging) in the fail method to let users know what is going on,
that would help. I'd like to avoid allowing users potentially shooting
themselves in the foot and getting into a difficult to debug situation.
I'd also like to see some documentation in the README in that respect.
Thanks again!
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