Does storm replay tuple which processing has timed out?

Question

It\'s mentioned in the storm documentation, that storm replays tuple which processing has timed out. My question is if the storm do this automatically (without calling fail() on

Answer 1

From http://storm.apache.org/documentation/Guaranteeing-message-processing.html,

if the tuple times-out Storm will call the fail method on the Spout

So yes, fail will be called.