GitHub user rmetzger opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1623
[FLINK-3368][Kafka 0.8] Handle leader changes in Kafka Consumer. Please see the JIRA for an explanation of the problems. tl;dr: The Kafka 0.8 consumer now handles broker failures internally, without relying on Flink's checkpointing / job recovery. The test case which was previously relying on a topology restart is now expecting the consumers to handle the failure. I also tested this change on a 7 nodes cluster. The job was running for 30 minutes, surviving 4 broker shutdowns. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rmetzger/flink flink3368 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1623.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 #1623 ---- commit 5e3bc92a0e6b1250a8ae0f8d898296586851dea1 Author: Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> Date: 2016-02-09T11:04:45Z [FLINK-3368][Kafka 0.8] Handle leader changes in Kafka Consumer. ---- --- 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. ---