RE: Significance of SimpleConsumer id string

2015-05-07 Thread Aditya Auradkar
From: Magnus Vojbacke [magnus.vojba...@digitalroute.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 4:44 AM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Significance of SimpleConsumer id string Hi, The kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer takes an "id: String” constructor parameter. What is the significan

Significance of SimpleConsumer id string

2015-05-07 Thread Magnus Vojbacke
Hi, The kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer takes an "id: String” constructor parameter. What is the significance of this id? Are there any consequences or risks associated with using the exact same id for several consumers of the same topic/partition? /Magnus