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Ewen Cheslack-Postava commented on KAFKA-2120: ---------------------------------------------- [~sureshms] They're related, but not the same thing. This JIRA is about the network requests made by the NetworkClient class, and is really about an internal implementation detail - we want to make sure the request times out so the client can make progress, even if it's never going to get a response. KAFKA-1788 is about timeouts for producer.send() calls which can never even make a network request because they can't make a connection to the broker. It's a user-facing issue. See the mailing list discussion thread linked in the KIP for more details. > Add a request timeout to NetworkClient > -------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2120 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2120 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Jiangjie Qin > Assignee: Mayuresh Gharat > > Currently NetworkClient does not have a timeout setting for requests. So if > no response is received for a request due to reasons such as broker is down, > the request will never be completed. > Request timeout will also be used as implicit timeout for some methods such > as KafkaProducer.flush() and kafkaProducer.close(). > KIP-19 is created for this public interface change. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-19+-+Add+a+request+timeout+to+NetworkClient -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)