Scanteianu commented on code in PR #12753:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/12753#discussion_r1048111890


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clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.java:
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@@ -1581,7 +1581,28 @@ public void commitAsync(final Map<TopicPartition, 
OffsetAndMetadata> offsets, Of
      * Overrides the fetch offsets that the consumer will use on the next 
{@link #poll(Duration) poll(timeout)}. If this API
      * 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
+     * <p>
+     * The next Consumer Record which will be retrieved when poll() is invoked 
will have the offset specified, given that
+     * a record with that offset exists (i.e. it is a valid offset).
+     * <p>
+     * {@link #seekToBeginning(Collection)} will go to the first offset in the 
topic.
+     * seek(0) is equivalent to seekToBeginning for a TopicPartition with 
beginning offset 0,
+     * assuming that there is a record at offset 0 still available.
+     * {@link #seekToEnd(Collection)} is equivalent to seeking to the last 
offset of the partition, but behavior depends on
+     * {@code isolation.level}, so see {@link #seekToBeginning(Collection)} 
documentation for more details.

Review Comment:
   thanks for this, good catch



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