GitHub user dguy opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1819
WIP: add context to some exceptions KafkaExceptions currently thrown from within StreamThread/StreamTask currently bubble up without any additional context. This makes it hard to figure out where something went wrong, i.e, which topic had the serialization exception etc You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dguy/kafka kafka-3708 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1819.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1819 ---- commit 8f37e2c48908da02ad7ac2111b70541ea918a769 Author: Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> Date: 2016-09-02T15:29:36Z add some context to exceptions ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---