GitHub user tzulitai opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4363
[FLINK-7224] [kafka, docs] Fix incorrect Javadoc / docs regarding Kafka partition metadata querying Since Flink 1.3, partition metadata is no longer queried on the client side. This commit corrects the statements of this legacy behaviour in the Javadocs and documentation. This should be merged for both `release-1.3` and `master`. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/tzulitai/flink FLINK-7224 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4363.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 #4363 ---- commit 8341083005e4de64b5d1b4e1fe2a543975197d02 Author: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai <tzuli...@apache.org> Date: 2017-07-19T06:24:27Z [FLINK-7224] [kafka, docs] Fix incorrect Javadoc / docs regarding Kafka partition metadata querying Since Flink 1.3, partition metadata is no longer queried on the client side. This commit corrects the statements of this legacy behaviour in the Javadocs and documentation. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---