Thanks Viktor for guiding me through this! I would initiate new thread to ask edit permission on wiki. Once I got permission I'll come up with simple KIP page and initiate discussion thread.
Thanks again, Jungtaek Lim On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 9:42 PM Viktor Somogyi-Vass <viktorsomo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Jungtaek, > > Thanks for your interest, sometimes I also think such an API would be a > good thing. > I don't see any strong reasons neither in KIP-288 nor in KIP-266 why such > an API shouldn't be created, so go ahead with it, although you'll need to > create a short KIP for this as the KafkaConsumer class considered to be a > public API. > > Best, > Viktor > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:26 AM Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If we just wanted to remove deprecation and let both co-exist, that would > > be also viable, though `poll(0)` is still a hack and it would be ideal to > > provide official approach to do so. > > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 4:24 PM Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi devs, > > > > > > I'm trying to replace deprecated poll(long) with poll(Duration), and > > > realized there's no alternative which behaves exactly same as poll(0), > as > > > poll(0) has been used as a hack to only update metadata instead of > > pulling > > > records. poll(Duration.ZERO) wouldn't behave same since even updating > > > metadata will be timed-out. So now end users would need to give more > > > timeout and even pull some records even they're only interested in > > metadata. > > > > > > I looked back some KIPs which brought the change, and "discarded" KIP > > > (KIP-288 [1]) actually proposed a new API which only pulls metadata. > > > KIP-266 [2] is picked up instead but it didn't cover all the things > what > > > KIP-288 proposed. I'm seeing some doc explaining poll(0) hasn't been > > > supported officially, but the hack has been widely used and they can't > be > > > ignored. > > > > > > Kafka test code itself relies on either deprecated poll(0), > > > or updateAssignmentMetadataIfNeeded, which seems to be private API only > > for > > > testing. > > > (Btw, I'd try out replacing poll(0) to updateAssignmentMetadataIfNeeded > > as > > > avoiding deprecated method - if it works I'll submit a PR.) > > > > > > I'm feeling that it would be ideal to expose > > > `updateAssignmentMetadataIfNeeded` to the public API, maybe with > renaming > > > as `waitForAssignment` which was proposed in KIP-288 if it feels too > > long. > > > > > > What do you think? If it sounds feasible I'd like to try out > contribution > > > on this. I'm new to contribute Kafka community, so not sure it would > > > require a new KIP or not. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR) > > > > > > 1. > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-288%3A+%5BDISCARDED%5D+Consumer.poll%28%29+timeout+semantic+change+and+new+waitForAssignment+method > > > 2. > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-266%3A+Fix+consumer+indefinite+blocking+behavior > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Name : Jungtaek Lim > > Blog : http://medium.com/@heartsavior > > Twitter : http://twitter.com/heartsavior > > LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/heartsavior > > > -- Name : Jungtaek Lim Blog : http://medium.com/@heartsavior Twitter : http://twitter.com/heartsavior LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/heartsavior