Never thrown exception declared in method signature

[lucas-giaco]

The close method for the Consumer class stands that could throw an IOException which is impossible as you're making catch Exception

This is really annoying as we have to handle an exception that will never be thrown

[hvillalb]

The close method for the Consumer class stands that could throw an IOException which is impossible as you're making catch Exception

This is really annoying as we have to handle an exception that will never be thrown

Yes, you right. We will fix in the next version. In the meantime you can use:
public void close(Duration timeout)

[hvillalb]

Fixed in 2.4.1 release