GitHub user mjsax opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4129
KAFKA-6115: TaskManager should be type aware - remove type specific methods from Task interface - add generics to preserve task type - add sub classes for different task types You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/mjsax/kafka kafka-6115-taskManager-should-be-type-aware Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4129.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #4129 ---- commit 48baeb368cb8072669780506f56afde084c943d9 Author: Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io> Date: 2017-10-24T23:39:34Z KAFKA-6115: TaskManager should be type aware - remove type specific methods from Task interface - add generics to preserve task type - add sub classes for different task types ---- ---