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Jay Kreps commented on KAFKA-2991: ---------------------------------- Sucks we didn't catch this in our reviews, changing it now will break compatibility. :-( > Improve collection type consistency in KafkaConsumer API > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2991 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2991 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Jason Gustafson > Assignee: Jason Gustafson > > The KafkaConsumer API has some annoying inconsistencies in the usage of > collection types. For example, subscribe() takes a list, but subscription() > returns a set. Similarly for assign() and assignment(). We also have pause() > and resume() which annoyingly use a variable argument array, which means you > have to copy the result of assignment() to an array if you want to pause all > assigned partitions. We can solve these issues by adding the following > variants: > {code} > void subscribe(Collection<String> topics); > void assign(Collection<TopicPartition> partitions); > void pause(Collection<TopicPartition> partitions); > void resume(Collection<TopicPartition> partitions); > {code} > I'm not actually sure that there is any need for the generic Collection, so > an alternative would be to just use Set. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)