> I feel it not worth making committed to have both plurals and singulars.
Not sure I agree. If we had started with these new APIs from the beginning, that may have been better, but we already have exposed the singular APIs and users are depending on them. Not sure it's worth breaking compatibility just for aesthetics. -Jason On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:41 AM Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Jason! > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:07 AM Jason Gustafson <ja...@confluent.io> > wrote: > > > Hi Guozhang, > > > > I think the motivation for the new API makes sense. I've wanted something > > like this in the past. That said, do you think there is a substantial > > benefit from deprecating the old API? I can still see it being convenient > > in some cases and it's no real cost to maintain. > > > > > That's a good question. > > Personally I would like to keep a succinct set of APIs out of the box and > let users who want more syntax sugars to add themselves as extended classes > for example (KafkaConsumer is not a final class). > Another reason is that other functions of KafkaConsumers do not have those > overloaded functions to be consistent, e.g. we do not have a > subscribe(single-topic), pause/resume(single-topic-partition) or > seekToBeginning(single-topic-partition). I feel it not worth making > committed to have both plurals and singulars. > > WDYT? > > > > Also, just a minor detail. If the partition has no committed offset, will > > it be present in the map with a null value? > > > > I looked into the admin client's listConsumerGroupOffsets call when > creating the KIP, and to be consistent with that API my intention is to NOT > include the entry if a topic-partition does not have committed offsets. > That said, if we feel returning an entry with null value is better for > programmability I can also do that (and will update wiki page to clarify as > well). LMK. > > > > -Jason > > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 6:09 AM Mickael Maison <mickael.mai...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > +1 (non-binding), thanks Guozhang > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 1:14 AM Boyang Chen < > reluctanthero...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hey Guozhang, > > > > > > > > LGTM, +1 (non-binding) > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 5:07 PM Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello folks, > > > > > > > > > > I've created a new KIP allowing consumer.committed to take a set of > > > > > partitions instead of just one partition to allow batching effects > of > > > such > > > > > requests (the protocol already allows us to send multiple > partitions > > > in one > > > > > round-trip): > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-520%3A+Add+overloaded+Consumer%23committed+for+batching+partitions > > > > > > > > > > Since it is a pretty straight-forward KIP, I'm starting the VOTE > for > > > this > > > > > KIP directly. If there are any suggestions about this proposal, > > please > > > feel > > > > > free to share them in this thread. Thank you! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Guozhang > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >