Github user rmetzger commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2861#discussion_r90916759
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flink-streaming-connectors/flink-connector-elasticsearch2/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/elasticsearch2/ElasticsearchSink.java
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@@ -186,22 +191,44 @@ public void beforeBulk(long executionId, BulkRequest
request) {
@Override
public void afterBulk(long executionId, BulkRequest
request, BulkResponse response) {
+ boolean allRequestsRepeatable = true;
if (response.hasFailures()) {
for (BulkItemResponse itemResp :
response.getItems()) {
if (itemResp.isFailed()) {
- LOG.error("Failed to
index document in Elasticsearch: " + itemResp.getFailureMessage());
-
failureThrowable.compareAndSet(null, new
RuntimeException(itemResp.getFailureMessage()));
+ // Check if index
request can be retried
+ String
failureMessageLowercase = itemResp.getFailureMessage().toLowerCase();
+ if
(failureMessageLowercase.contains("timeout") ||
failureMessageLowercase.contains("timed out") // Generic timeout errors
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This string-based error matching seems to be a pretty unstable mechanism.
Can you add a flag to control whether the mechanism is enabled, and disable
it by default (but document it on the ES connector page)
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