Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2687#discussion_r105687880 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-base/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.java --- @@ -558,11 +629,31 @@ protected static void initializeSubscribedPartitionsToStartOffsets( List<KafkaTopicPartition> kafkaTopicPartitions, int indexOfThisSubtask, int numParallelSubtasks, - StartupMode startupMode) { + StartupMode startupMode, + Map<KafkaTopicPartition, Long> specificStartupOffsets) { for (int i = 0; i < kafkaTopicPartitions.size(); i++) { if (i % numParallelSubtasks == indexOfThisSubtask) { - subscribedPartitionsToStartOffsets.put(kafkaTopicPartitions.get(i), startupMode.getStateSentinel()); + if (startupMode != StartupMode.SPECIFIC_OFFSETS) { + subscribedPartitionsToStartOffsets.put(kafkaTopicPartitions.get(i), startupMode.getStateSentinel()); + } else { + if (specificStartupOffsets == null) { + throw new IllegalArgumentException( + "Startup mode for the consumer set to " + StartupMode.SPECIFIC_OFFSETS + + ", but no specific offsets were specified"); + } + + KafkaTopicPartition partition = kafkaTopicPartitions.get(i); + + Long specificOffset = specificStartupOffsets.get(partition); --- End diff -- Yes, that is handled according to the `auto.offset.reset` setting, automatically by the Kafka clients (except of 0.8, which we need to do the dirty work ourselves, but that logic is already implemented before).
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