Jay Kreps created KAFKA-1893:
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             Summary: Allow regex subscriptions in the new consumer
                 Key: KAFKA-1893
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1893
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Sub-task
            Reporter: Jay Kreps


The consumer needs to handle subscribing to regular expressions. Presumably 
this would be done as a new api,
{code}
  void subscribe(java.util.regex.Pattern pattern);
{code}

Some questions/thoughts to work out:
 - It should not be possible to mix pattern subscription with partition 
subscription.
 - Is it allowable to mix this with normal topic subscriptions? Logically this 
is okay but a bit complex to implement.
 - We need to ensure we regularly update the metadata and recheck our regexes 
against the metadata to update subscriptions for new topics that are created or 
old topics that are deleted.



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