I don't think its working. According to the Kafka documentation ( https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#upgrade):
0.8, the release in which added replication, was our first > backwards-incompatible release: major changes were made to the API, > ZooKeeper data structures, and protocol, and configuration. The upgrade > from 0.7 to 0.8.x requires a special tool > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Migrating+from+0.7+to+0.8> > for > migration. This migration can be done without downtime. Since they changed the protocols I doubt that our client API can read from the old brokers. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > We tested it only with Kafka 0.8.1 upwards. > > I know nobody that used it with Kafka < 0.8 before. You can give it a try, > let us know if it works... > > BTW: I think Kafka 0.7 has so many open problems, if you can, may be worth > upgrading... > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Martin Neumann <mneum...@sics.se> wrote: > >> Hej, >> >> I want to connect Flink streaming to a Kafka 0.7 cluster. >> Will this work with the latest release or does the Kafka implementation >> rely on kafka 0.8? >> >> cheers Martin >> > >
