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Ewen Cheslack-Postava commented on KAFKA-2120:
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[~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
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>
>                 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



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