[STORM-1705] Cap on number of retries for a failed message in kafka spout

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0, 1.0.2, 1.1.0
• Component/s: storm-kafka
• Epic Link: Release Apache Storm 1.0.2
• Assignee: Abhishek Agarwal
• Reporter: Abhishek Agarwal
• Created: 11/Apr/16 08:15
• Updated: 10/Jun/16 22:08
• Resolved: 10/Jun/16 22:08

Description

The kafka-spout module based on newer APIs has a cap on the number of times, a message is to be retried. It will be a good feature add in the older kafka spout code as well.

Issue Links

• is required by: STORM-1876 Provide option to build storm-kafka against different kafka clients
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1331
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1481