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Guillaume Bort commented on KAFKA-10422:
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Thanks for you answer. What is the right process to have a KIP initiated? I
have found the confluence space but I cannot create one directly there. Should
I discuss that first on the mailing list?
> Provide a `timesForOffsets` operation in kafka consumer
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>
> Key: KAFKA-10422
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-10422
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: clients, core
> Reporter: Guillaume Bort
> Priority: Major
>
> The kafka consumer already provides an operation to quickly lookup the
> offsets by timestamp by using the `offsetsForTimes` operation.
> However there are use cases where the inverse operation would be useful:
> having a set of offsets, I would like to lookup the ingestion timestamps for
> all these messages. Currently it would require fetching all these message by
> random access to retrieve the timestamps.
> I propose to add the `timesForOffsets` operation to the kafka consumer. The
> operation signature would be equivalent to `offsetsForTimes`: given a mapping
> from partition to the offset to look up, it would return a mapping from
> partition to the timestamp and offset of the message at the requested offset.
> {{null}} would be returned for the partition if there is no message at this
> offset.
> I think it would require an API change in `ListOffset`, so maybe it does
> require a KIP?
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