The mixing is not possible for a single instance of a consumer. A
consumer either subscribes to partitions and is part of a consumer
group, or a consumer us not part of any consumer group when manual
partitions assignment is used.


-Matthias

On 7/13/17 1:57 PM, venkata sastry akella wrote:
> Lets a consumer not part of a group , is assigning partitiions manually in
> one consumer is going to effect the other consumers part of a consumer
> group?
> 
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Paolo Patierno <ppatie...@live.com> wrote:
> 
>> Assigning partitions manually has no relation with consumer groups. I mean
>> ... a consumer doesn't need to be part of a consumer group (so specifying
>> group.id) for having a partition assigned manually.
>> ________________________________
>> From: venkata sastry akella <akel...@gmail.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 7:09:33 PM
>> To: dev@kafka.apache.org
>> Subject: Clarification on KafkaConsumer manual partition assignment
>>
>> KafkaConsumer API doc has the following statement.
>>
>> "Note that it isn't possible to mix manual partition assignment (i.e. using
>> assign
>> <https://kafka.apache.org/0100/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/
>> KafkaConsumer.html#assign(java.util.Collection)>)
>> with dynamic partition assignment through topic subscription (i.e. using
>> subscribe
>> <https://kafka.apache.org/0100/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/
>> KafkaConsumer.html#subscribe(java.util.Collection)>
>> )."
>>
>> Question:  Does this statement applies to only one consumer group  or
>> multiple consumer groups ?
>> Meaning, can one consumer group has manual assignment and other consumer
>> group has automatic assignment  ?   OR if atleast one consumer group has
>> manual assignment, then automatic assignment doesnt work for any other
>> consumer group also ?
>>
>> Thanks for clarifying this.
>>
> 

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