Github user srdo commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1993
If `RecordTranslator.apply` was given access to the `KafkaSpoutMessageId`
(or current number of retries), you could redirect tuples that have been
retried sufficiently many times to another stream using `KafkaTuple` as @hmcl
mentioned. That allows you to write the failed tuples to the dead letter topic
from a KafkaBolt instead of doing it from inside the spout. It would be cleaner
IMO.
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