No exception when unable to connect to kafka cluster

Question

I am unable get an exception when the program fails to connect to the kafka cluster. The code outputs the exception in the console logs but I need it throw an exception. I am using this c# library: https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-dotnet

ProducerConfig _configKafka = new ProducerConfig { BootstrapServers ="localhost:9092/" };

ProducerBuilder<string, string> _kafkaProducer = new ProducerBuilder<string, string>(_configKafka);
using (var kafkaProducer = _kafkaProducer.Build())
{

    try
    {
        var dr = kafkaProducer.ProduceAsync("Kafka_Messages", new Message<string, string> { Key = null, Value = $"message {i++}" });
        dr.Wait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));

        if(dr.Exception!=null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Delivery failed:");
        }

        var status = dr.Status;

        //Console.WriteLine($"Delivered '{dr.Value}' to '{dr.TopicPartitionOffset}'");
    }

    catch (ProduceException<Null, string> e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Delivery failed: {e.Error.Reason}");
    }
}

Below is the error printed by confluent-kafka in console:

%3|1565248275.024|FAIL|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:localhst:9092/bootstrap]: localhst:9092/bootstrap: Failed to resolve 'localhst:9092': No such host is known.  (after 2269ms in state CONNECT)
%3|1565248275.024|ERROR|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:localhst:9092/bootstrap]: localhst:9092/bootstrap: Failed to resolve 'localhst:9092': No such host is known.  (after 2269ms in state CONNECT)
%3|1565248275.025|ERROR|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:localhst:9092/bootstrap]: 1/1 brokers are down

Answer 1

To get the actual exception within your application you need to add .SetErrorHandler():

    ProducerBuilder<string, string> _kafkaProducer = new ProducerBuilder<string, string>(_configKafka);

    using (var kafkaProducer = _kafkaProducer.SetErrorHandler((producer, error) =>
                        {
                           //You can handle error right here

                        }).Build())

error.Reason contains the error message