Github user srdo commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1835#discussion_r93294533 --- Diff: external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpout.java --- @@ -218,7 +223,11 @@ public void nextTuple() { } if (poll()) { - setWaitingToEmit(pollKafkaBroker()); + try { + setWaitingToEmit(pollKafkaBroker()); + } catch (KafkaException e) { --- End diff -- I think you should catch https://kafka.apache.org/0100/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/common/errors/RetriableException.html instead, it seems to cover all the exceptions that are expected to be transient (leader change for example, through InvalidMetadataException). Catching KafkaException will break interrupt handling (see https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1821) because InterruptException is an instance of KafkaException.
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