KafkaActorSubscriber log statement not displaying exception about alpakka-kafka HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks, @gvd! Indeed, the logging interface is a bit unfortunate, I'm fixing this to
log.error(ex, "Stopping subscriber due to an error")
I'll try to add some test around it.

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Maybe you could have an ExceptionHandler component, where the default handling would be to log the exceptions, but could provide hooks to e.g. restart the whole stream, try to reconnect, do exponential backoff etc?
Passed as an implicit or parameter with a default value?

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@adamw Underneath the subscriber is an Akka actor. Errors can be handled with custom behavior using DeathWatch. I'm checking how one can pass more details on exceptions with that.

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I might be wrong, but currently the underlying actor is not returned when building the stream, thus inhibiting the ability to supervise/register for deathwatch of that actor.

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There is some public API not mentioned in README. You can build your consumer like this:

val consumerActor = reactiveKafka.consumerAsActor[T](...)
val consumer = ActorPublisher[String](consumerActor)

and you have a working ActorRef which you can watch. I'm also trying to make it possible to supervise this actor, so that you can capture full exception when it crashes. Only then I'll fully close this issue.

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Fixed fully in #23

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