elasticsearch/elasticsearch — pull request #8979 by bleskes (2014-12-16 22:25:34+00:00)
Title: Discovery: only retry join when other node is not (yet) a master

When a node tries to join a master, the master may not yet be ready to accept the join request. In such cases we retry sending the join request up to 3 times before going back to ping. To detect this the current logic uses ExceptionsHelper.unwrapCause(t) to unwrap the incoming RemoteTransportException and inspect it's source, looking for `ElasticsearchIllegalStateException`. However, local `ElasticsearchIllegalStateException` can also be thrown when the join process should be cancelled (i.e., node shut down). In this case we shouldn't retry.

Since we can't introduce new exceptions in a BWC manner, we are forced to check the message of the exception.

Relates to #8972