GitHub user rajinisivaram opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2622
KAFKA-4631: Request metadata in consumer if topic/partitions unavailable If leader node of one more more partitions in a consumer subscription are temporarily unavailable, request metadata refresh so that partitions skipped for assignment dont have to wait for metadata expiry before reassignment. Metadata refresh is also requested if a subscribe topic or assigned partition doesn't exist. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rajinisivaram/kafka KAFKA-4631 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2622.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 #2622 ---- commit 406427953b2789e5a717136bac6b0b3ada5eb9eb Author: Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@googlemail.com> Date: 2017-02-28T12:09:44Z KAFKA-4631: Request metadata in consumer if topic/partitions unavailable ---- --- 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. ---