Amir Malekpour created KAFKA-1637: ------------------------------------- Summary: SimpleConsumer.fetchOffset returns wrong error code Key: KAFKA-1637 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1637 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: consumer, core Affects Versions: 0.8.1.1, 0.8.1 Environment: Linux Reporter: Amir Malekpour Assignee: Neha Narkhede
This concerns Kafka's Offset Fetch API: According to Kafka's current documentation, "if there is no offset associated with a topic-partition under that consumer group the broker does not set an error code (since it is not really an error), but returns empty metadata and sets the offset field to -1." (Like below) However, in Kafka 08.1.1 Error code '3' is returned, which effectively makes it impossible for the client to decide if there was an error, or if there is no offset associated with a topic-partition under that consumer group. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol#AGuideToTheKafkaProtocol-MetadataAPI -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)