Hello Paul, 1. Yes it is OK. Actually each MirrorMaker process may use multiple ConsumerConnectors.
2. Yes it is OK. Guozhang On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Paul Mackles <pmack...@adobe.com> wrote: > Hi - I am making a few assumptions about the 0.8 high-level consumer API > that I am looking to confirm: > > -it is OK to have multiple ConsumerConnector objects in the same process? > To be sure, they are all operating independently. I could probably shove > everything into one ConsumerConnector if I had to but its easier to manage > with separate objects and I have enough memory. Anyone aware of any gotchas > with this? I haven't seen any issues with this so far but my testing hasn't > been exhaustive (2 or 3 at at time). > > -is it OK to call ConsumerConnector.shutdown() whenever I want? In other > words, if I find out that a downstream process has failed, can I just call > ConsumerConnector.shutdown() at that moment (from another thread) or do I > need to wait until the next ConsumerTimeout and call shutdown then? I > haven't had a chance to test this yet but based on my understanding of how > the consumer works, it seems like it should be OK. I am hoping that I can > call shutdown() at anytime and that it will unblock any blocking calls. > > Thanks, > Paul > > -- -- Guozhang
