This has apparently been fixed in 0.8.2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-899
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, transient error like LeaderNotAvailableException can happen. If you > configure enough retries, then you shouldn't see the exception in the > normal case. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello Apache Kafka community, > > > > When trying to publish (using high level sync producer) a message on a > > non-existing topic (with implicit topic creation enabled), with > > message.send.max.retries set to 1, sending will fail with > > FailedToSendMessageException (and LeaderNotAvailableException swallowed). > > > > Am I doing something wrong, are my expectations wrong that this should > work > > without exception thrown, or is this a known Kafka (with ZooKeeper as > > storage) issue? > > > > I'm using Kafka 0.8.1.1. > > > > Kind regards, > > Stevo Slavic. > > >
