Awesome, thanks so much,
rob

On Jul 25, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Florin Trofin <ftro...@adobe.com> wrote:

> You can set the "consumer.timeout.ms" to have a ConsumerTimeoutException 
> thrown if the broker doesn't respond within that time period:
> 
>      var done = False
>      val consumerIterator = initConsumer()
>      while(true) {
>        try {
>          val messageAndMetadata = consumerIterator.next() // Blocks until a 
> new message is available or timeout is reached
>          val message = messageAndMetadata.message
>          val offset = messageAndMetadata.offset
>          System.out.println(new String(message, "UTF-8")) // For debugging 
> purposes
> 
>          parseMessage( message, offset)
>        }
>        catch {
>          case t: ConsumerTimeoutException => return
>          case e => {
>            println("unexpected exception: ")
>            e.printStackTrace()
>          }
>        }
>      } // End while loop
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Florin
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Rob Withers <reefed...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Oh boy, is my mind slow today.  The tamasic cells woke up but the rajasic 
>> ones stayed asleep, which is rather ironic, if you know what I mean.   My 
>> only hope is the sattvasic few.
>> 
>> The issue of threading is secondary to the blocking api.  How can I know the 
>> traffic is drained from a topic/partition, cleanup, and return the response 
>> to the REST call?
>> 
>> thanks,
>> rob
>> 
>> On Jul 25, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Rob Withers <reefed...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks, Joe, I also see the answer to my other question, that the 
>>> KafkaStream is not on a different thread, but I automatically expect it to 
>>> be since all other uses we have had of the KafkaStream are stuffed in a 
>>> Runnable.  duh.
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> rob
>>> 
>>> On Jul 25, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Joe Stein <crypt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> in 0.8 you can set the property "auto.offset.reset" = "smallest" when
>>>> creating your ConsumerConfig ... this will override the default value of
>>>> "largest"
>>>> 
>>>> take a look at ConsoleConsumer.scala for more example if need be
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> /*******************************************
>>>> 
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>>>> Founder, Principal Consultant
>>>> Big Data Open Source Security LLC
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>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:24 PM, James A. Robinson <
>>>> j...@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Withers, Robert
>>>>> <robert.with...@dish.com> wrote:
>>>>>> We are creating a consumer with properties and I did not see a
>>>>>> property that screamed that it was to start at the beginning of a
>>>>>> topic.  Is there such a property?
>>>>> 
>>>>> In v0.7, set 'autooffset.reset' to 'smallest'.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jim
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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