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Curtis Allen commented on KAFKA-3231: ------------------------------------- Using https://github.com/Shopify/sarama via https://github.com/bsm/sarama-cluster Using a simple command line client (https://github.com/bsm/sarama-cluster/blob/master/cmd/sarama-cluster-cli/main.go), the offsets seem to be persisted because I can the following messages in the kafka log {code} [2016-02-11 08:34:53,771] INFO [Group Metadata Manager on Broker 0]: Finished loading offsets from [__consumer_offsets,47] in 6 milliseconds. (kafka.coordinator.GroupMetadataManager) [2016-02-11 08:34:53,771] INFO [Group Metadata Manager on Broker 0]: Loading offsets and group metadata from [__consumer_offsets,4] (kafka.coordinator.GroupMetadataManager) [2016-02-11 08:34:53,778] INFO [Group Metadata Manager on Broker 0]: Finished loading offsets from [__consumer_offsets,4] in 7 milliseconds. (kafka.coordinator.GroupMetadataManager) {code} Started the client using {code} go run cmd/sarama-cluster-cli/main.go -brokers=127.0.0.1:9092 -group=testgroup -offset=oldest -topics=test -verbose=true {code} > describe group IllegalArgumentException for kafka-consumer-groups > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-3231 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3231 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: consumer > Affects Versions: 0.9.0.0 > Reporter: Curtis Allen > Assignee: Neha Narkhede > Priority: Minor > > The kafka-consumer-groups tool doesn't seem to work when describing new > consumer groups. > Listing groups work > {code} > $ ./bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --new-consumer --bootstrap-server > 127.0.0.1:9092 --list > testgroup > {code} > Describing throws an exception > {code} > $ ./kafka-consumer-groups.sh --new-consumer --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092 > --describe --group testgroup > Error while executing consumer group command Error reading field 'user_data': > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException > org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.SchemaException: Error reading field > 'user_data': java.lang.IllegalArgumentException > at org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.Schema.read(Schema.java:71) > at > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerProtocol.deserializeAssignment(ConsumerProtocol.java:109) > at > kafka.admin.AdminClient$$anonfun$describeConsumerGroup$1.apply(AdminClient.scala:165) > at > kafka.admin.AdminClient$$anonfun$describeConsumerGroup$1.apply(AdminClient.scala:164) > at scala.collection.immutable.List.map(List.scala:273) > at kafka.admin.AdminClient.describeConsumerGroup(AdminClient.scala:164) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.describeGroup(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:314) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$ConsumerGroupService$class.describe(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:84) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.describe(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:302) > at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$.main(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:63) > at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand.main(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)