Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1623#issuecomment-185735036
The `getPartitionsForTopic()` method fails hard immediately, when it does
not find the Topic name or partition. There will be no retries. Is that
desirable, or can it be that some nodes to not know the topic name, because
Kafka's meta data has not properly synced?
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