[BUG] TOO_MANY_REQUESTS error craches the tasks with a unrecoverable exceptions without retries

[yeikel]

With a configuration such as

"max.retries": "10",
"retry.backoff.ms": "500"

I would expect the connector to continue retrying up to 6-8 minutes given the number of retries configured and the backoff configuration

What I am seeing however is that the connector is failing immediately with an unrecoverable exception. I believe that this might be a bug

While looking for the errors logs and the io.confluent.connect.elasticsearch.RetryUtil package, I do not see any retries logged when this error happens

If it helps, I have a DLQ configured that works as expected for other failures. When this problem happens, the DLQ is not triggered and the task just fails with the unrecoverable exception

org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException: Exiting WorkerSinkTask due to unrecoverable exception. at 
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.deliverMessages(WorkerSinkTask.java:618) at 
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.poll(WorkerSinkTask.java:334) at 
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.iteration(WorkerSinkTask.java:235) at 
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.execute(WorkerSinkTask.java:204) at 
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.doRun(WorkerTask.java:201) at 
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.run(WorkerTask.java:256) at 
java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515) at 
java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264) at 
java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) at 
java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) at 
java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829) Caused by: org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException: 
Indexing record failed. at 
io.confluent.connect.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchClient.handleResponse(ElasticsearchClient.java:639) at 
io.confluent.connect.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchClient$1.afterBulk(ElasticsearchClient.java:428) at 
org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkRequestHandler$1.onResponse(BulkRequestHandler.java:59) at 
org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkRequestHandler$1.onResponse(BulkRequestHandler.java:56) at 
org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$RunAfterActionListener.onResponse(ActionListener.java:341) at 
org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.Retry$RetryHandler.finishHim(Retry.java:168) at 
org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.Retry$RetryHandler.onResponse(Retry.java:112) at 
org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.Retry$RetryHandler.onResponse(Retry.java:71) at 
io.confluent.connect.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchClient.lambda$null$1(ElasticsearchClient.java:214) ... 5 more Caused 
by: java.lang.Throwable: Response status: 'TOO_MANY_REQUESTS', Index: 'index', Document Id: 'yyty'