showuon commented on code in PR #12753: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/12753#discussion_r1002816719
########## clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.java: ########## @@ -1581,6 +1581,19 @@ public void commitAsync(final Map<TopicPartition, OffsetAndMetadata> offsets, Of * is invoked for the same partition more than once, the latest offset will be used on the next poll(). Note that * you may lose data if this API is arbitrarily used in the middle of consumption, to reset the fetch offsets * + * The next Consumer Record which will be retrieved when poll() is invoked will either have the offset specified or + * a higher numbered offset. A higher numbered offset will be returned if there is no consumer record with the offset + * specified but there is one with a higher offset. + * seek(0) is equivalent to seek to beginning for a topic with beginning offset 0. + * + * Seeking past the end of the highest known offset means that all consumer records between the highest known offset + * and the offset passed to seek will be skipped by poll(), which will only return records once the offset passed + * to poll() has been reached. Review Comment: Are you sure this is correct? Won't it return `OffsetOutOfRangeException` and reset the offset by `auto.offset.reset` config? -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: jira-unsubscr...@kafka.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org