error in KafkaConsumer javadocs?

2016-01-11 Thread Richard Lee
ets) which, of course, would require a bit more bookkeeping of what was the last processed offset for each partition of each topic in the current set of records. Or, perhaps this example should be reworked to not be committing offsets until after it has processed all the records? --- Richard

Re: are 0.8.2.1 and 0.9.0.0 compatible?

2015-10-01 Thread Richard Lee
version to remain compatible during the bounce. This is done using the inter.broker.protocol.version property. More on that topic can be read here: https://kafka.apache.org/083/documentation.html#upgrade Hopefully that helps clear things up. Thank you, Grant On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:21 PM,

Re: are 0.8.2.1 and 0.9.0.0 compatible?

2015-10-01 Thread Richard Lee
Note the 0.8.3-SNAPSHOT has recently been renamed 0.9.0.0-SNAPSHOT. In any event, the major version number change could indicate that there has, in fact, been some sort of incompatible change. Using 0.9.0.0, I'm also unable to use the kafka-console-consumer.sh to read from a 0.8.2.1 broker, b

kafka 0.8.2.2 release

2015-09-28 Thread Richard Lee
It appears from maven central and git that there was a 0.8.2.2 release on Sept 2nd. However, the Kafka downloads page (https://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html) does not appear to have been updated. Also, why aren't the kafka shell scripts made available as a .tgz file in maven central like t

missing topic error message not useful

2015-09-19 Thread Richard Lee
Hi there- The error message returned when trying to produce to a nonexistent kafka topic (with auto topic creation disabled) is non obvious. It returns an error message of the form: "org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Failed to update metadata after xx ms" where xx is a small n