org.apache.kafka.common.errors.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException: This server does not host this topic-partition

Question

Using java I am sending a json object to kafka, initially it worked for me for 2 days, now I am getting the following exception

Exception in thread "main" java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.kafka.common.errors.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException: This server does not host this topic-partition.
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.FutureRecordMetadata.valueOrError(FutureRecordMetadata.java:65)
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.FutureRecordMetadata.get(FutureRecordMetadata.java:52)
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.FutureRecordMetadata.get(FutureRecordMetadata.java:25)
    at dummy.DummySyntheticManifestProducer.main(DummySyntheticManifestProducer.java:164)
 Caused by: org.apache.kafka.common.errors.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException: This server does not host this topic-partition.

Answer 1

setting the retries property on the producer settings. also need to set the property max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to 1