Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3358#discussion_r102184622 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-elasticsearch-base/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchSinkBase.java --- @@ -165,20 +286,36 @@ public void beforeBulk(long executionId, BulkRequest request) { } @Override public void afterBulk(long executionId, BulkRequest request, BulkResponse response) { if (response.hasFailures()) { - for (BulkItemResponse itemResp : response.getItems()) { - Throwable failure = callBridge.extractFailureCauseFromBulkItemResponse(itemResp); + BulkItemResponse itemResponse; + Throwable failure; + + for (int i = 0; i < response.getItems().length; i++) { + itemResponse = response.getItems()[i]; + failure = callBridge.extractFailureCauseFromBulkItemResponse(itemResponse); if (failure != null) { - LOG.error("Failed Elasticsearch item request: {}", failure.getMessage(), failure); - failureThrowable.compareAndSet(null, failure); + LOG.error("Failed Elasticsearch item request: {}", itemResponse.getFailureMessage(), failure); + + if (failureHandler.onFailure(request.requests().get(i), failure, requestIndexer)) { + failureThrowable.compareAndSet(null, failure); + } } } } + + numPendingRequests.getAndAdd(-request.numberOfActions()); } @Override public void afterBulk(long executionId, BulkRequest request, Throwable failure) { - LOG.error("Failed Elasticsearch bulk request: {}", failure.getMessage(), failure); - failureThrowable.compareAndSet(null, failure); + LOG.error("Failed Elasticsearch bulk request: {}", failure.getMessage(), failure.getCause()); + + // whole bulk request failures are usually just temporary timeouts on + // the Elasticsearch side; simply retry all action requests in the bulk + for (ActionRequest action : request.requests()) { + requestIndexer.add(action); + } + + numPendingRequests.getAndAdd(-request.numberOfActions()); --- End diff -- The `BulkProcessorIndexer` will increment `numPendingRequests` whenever the user calls `add(ActionRequest)`. So, in your description, when the user re-adds the 500 requests, `numPendingRequests` first becomes `500+500=1000`. Then, we consider the failed 500 requests to have completed when this line is reached, so `numPendingRequests` becomes `1000-500=500`.
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