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Jason Gustafson commented on KAFKA-2500:
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[~ewencp] Would exposing the high watermarks from the fetch responses address
that issue? It seems like your requirement is to actually have an API to get
the end offsets directly (outside the context of a fetch).
> Make logEndOffset available in the 0.8.3 Consumer
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> Key: KAFKA-2500
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2500
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: consumer
> Affects Versions: 0.8.3
> Reporter: Will Funnell
> Assignee: Jason Gustafson
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 0.8.3
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> Originally created in the old consumer here:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1977
> The requirement is to create a snapshot from the Kafka topic but NOT do
> continual reads after that point. For example you might be creating a backup
> of the data to a file.
> This ticket covers the addition of the functionality to the new consumer.
> In order to achieve that, a recommended solution by Joel Koshy and Jay Kreps
> was to expose the high watermark, as maxEndOffset, from the FetchResponse
> object through to each MessageAndMetadata object in order to be aware when
> the consumer has reached the end of each partition.
> The submitted patch achieves this by adding the maxEndOffset to the
> PartitionTopicInfo, which is updated when a new message arrives in the
> ConsumerFetcherThread and then exposed in MessageAndMetadata.
> See here for discussion:
> http://search-hadoop.com/m/4TaT4TpJy71
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