Agree that it is somewhat awkward to use zookeeper for broker discovery on consumer, but a broker list on the producer. There were a couple of discussions on the mailing list suggesting using zookeeper on the producer, at least for discovering the brokers for the first time. However, we are starting on the Client Rewrite project which is targeted for 0.9. That is something we can consider changing on Kafka 0.9. If there is sufficient interest, we can look making the zookeeper config change on the producer soon. But that is something to discuss on a JIRA.
Thanks, Neha On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Roger Hoover <roger.hoo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still getting started with Kafka and was curious why there is an > asymmetry between the producer and consumer APIs. Why does the producer > config take a list of brokers where as the consumer config takes a list of > brokers? > > Thanks, > > Roger >
