Thank You. I will try this out.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com>
wrote:

> Using high level consumer and assuming you already created an iterator:
>
> while (msgCount < maxMessages && it.hasNext()) {
>  bytes = it.next().message();
>  eventList.add(bytes);
> }
>
> (See a complete example here:
>
> https://github.com/apache/flume/blob/trunk/flume-ng-sources/flume-kafka-source/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/source/kafka/KafkaSource.java
> )
>
> Gwen
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:15 AM, pankaj ojha <pankajojh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My requirement is to read a specific number of messages from kafka topic
> > which contains data in json format and after reading number of messges, i
> > need to write that in a file and then stop. How can I count number of
> > messages read by my consumer code(either simpleconsumer or high level) ?
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Pankaj Ojha
>



-- 
Thanks,
Pankaj Ojha

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