Merge pull request #55 from heetch/rog-003-always-default-retry

consumer: use default retry interval when MaxRetryInterval is zero

consumer/config.go

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ type Config struct {
 	KeyCodec codec.Codec
 }
 
+const defaultRetryInterval = 5 * time.Second
+
 // NewConfig creates a config with sane defaults.
 // The Sarama Cluster group mode will always be overwritten by the consumer
 // and thus cannot be changed, as the consumer is designed to use the ConsumerModePartitions mode.
@@ -40,7 +42,6 @@ func NewConfig(clientID string) Config {
 	c.Group.Mode = cluster.ConsumerModePartitions
 
 	// Felice consumer configuration
-	c.MaxRetryInterval = 5 * time.Second
 	c.KeyCodec = codec.String() // defaults to String
 	return c
 }

consumer/consumer.go

@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ func (c *Consumer) setup() {
 		// Note: the logic in handleMsg assumes that
 		// this does not terminate; be aware of that when changing
 		// this strategy.
+		if c.config.MaxRetryInterval <= 0 {
+			c.config.MaxRetryInterval = defaultRetryInterval
+		}
 		c.retryStrategy = retry.Exponential{
 			Initial:  time.Millisecond,
 			Factor:   2,