KafkaClient should try/except ConnnectionError when calling _get_conn

kafka/client.py

@@ -169,19 +169,19 @@ class KafkaClient(object):
         responses_by_broker = collections.defaultdict(list)
         broker_failures = []
         for broker, payloads in payloads_by_broker.items():
-            conn = self._get_conn(broker.host.decode('utf-8'), broker.port)
             requestId = self._next_id()
             request = encoder_fn(client_id=self.client_id,
                                  correlation_id=requestId, payloads=payloads)
 
             # Send the request, recv the response
             try:
+                conn = self._get_conn(broker.host.decode('utf-8'), broker.port)
                 conn.send(requestId, request)
 
             except ConnectionError as e:
                 broker_failures.append(broker)
                 log.warning("Could not send request [%s] to server %s: %s",
-                            binascii.b2a_hex(request), conn, e)
+                            binascii.b2a_hex(request), broker, e)
 
                 for payload in payloads:
                     responses_by_broker[broker].append(FailedPayloadsError(payload))