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Vahid Hashemian commented on KAFKA-3370: ---------------------------------------- Thanks [~gwenshap]. And it seems from the description of this JIRA that another use case is when we don't want an auto-reset when fetching an offset that is out of range. Instead, we would want to be notified that the requested offset does not exist. In this case, I see a total of 4 new policies: 1,2. earliest-on-start and latest-on-start as suggested in the description with the above semantics for out-of-range offsets earliest-on-start: move to earliest during initialization, error for other out-of-range offset fetches latest-on-start: move to latest during initialization, error for other out-of-range offset fetches 3,4. earliest-auto-correct and latest-auto-correct as you suggested earlier earliest-auto-correct: move to earliest during initialization, otherwise: move to earliest if offset too low for range, or to latest if offset too high for range latest-auto-correct: move to latest during initialization, otherwise: move to earliest if offset too low for range, or to latest if offset too high for range Thoughts? > Add options to auto.offset.reset to reset offsets upon initialization only > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-3370 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3370 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Guozhang Wang > Assignee: Vahid Hashemian > Fix For: 0.10.1.0 > > > Currently "auto.offset.reset" is applied in the following two cases: > 1) upon starting the consumer for the first time (hence no committed offsets > before); > 2) upon fetching offsets out-of-range. > For scenarios where case 2) needs to be avoid (i.e. people need to be > notified upon offsets out-of-range rather than silently offset reset), > "auto.offset.reset" need to be set to "none". However for case 1) setting > "auto.offset.reset" to "none" will cause NoOffsetForPartitionException upon > polling. And in this case, seekToBeginning/seekToEnd is mistakenly applied > trying to set the offset at initialization, which are actually designed for > during the life time of the consumer (in rebalance callback, for example). > The fix proposal is to add two more options to "auto.offset.reset", > "earliest-on-start", and "latest-on-start", whose semantics are "earliest" > and "latest" for case 1) only, and "none" for case 2). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)