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Added documentation for spark.streaming.kafka.maxRetries

Author: BenFradet <benjamin.fradet@gmail.com>

Closes apache#5808 from BenFradet/master and squashes the following commits:

cc72e7a [BenFradet] updated doc for spark.streaming.kafka.maxRetries to explain the default value
18f823e [BenFradet] Added "consecutive" to the spark.streaming.kafka.maxRetries doc
597fdeb [BenFradet] Mention that spark.streaming.kafka.maxRetries only applies to the direct kafka api
0efad39 [BenFradet] Added documentation for spark.streaming.kafka.maxRetries

docs/configuration.md

@@ -1464,6 +1464,16 @@ Apart from these, the following properties are also available, and may be useful
     for more details.
   </td>
 </tr>
+<tr>
+  <td><code>spark.streaming.kafka.maxRetries</code></td>
+  <td>1</td>
+  <td>
+    Maximum number of consecutive retries the driver will make in order to find
+    the latest offsets on the leader of each partition (a default value of 1
+    means that the driver will make a maximum of 2 attempts). Only applies to
+    the new Kafka direct stream API.
+  </td>
+</tr>
 </table>
 
 #### Cluster Managers