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Shikhar Bhushan updated KAFKA-4042: ----------------------------------- Summary: DistributedHerder thread can die because of connector & task lifecycle exceptions (was: Missing error handling in Worker.startConnector() can cause Herder thread to die) > DistributedHerder thread can die because of connector & task lifecycle > exceptions > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-4042 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4042 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Shikhar Bhushan > Assignee: Shikhar Bhushan > > While errors in {{WorkerConnector}} are handled using the > {{statusListener.onFailure()}} callback, before the {{WorkerConnector}} is > created in {{Worker.startConnector()}} there can be exceptions because of > e.g. a bad class name and these are currently not handled, causing the > {{Herder}} thread to die. > Report of issue in wild: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/confluent-platform/EnleFnXpZCU/3B_gRxsRAgAJ -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)