Hello Guozhang. The following is slightly modified version of the example. Where offset can be previously valid offset, but does not exist in kafka for one or the other valid reason. TopicAndPartition topicAndPartition = new TopicAndPartition(topic, partition); Map<TopicAndPartition, PartitionOffsetRequestInfo> requestInfo = new HashMap<TopicAndPartition, PartitionOffsetRequestInfo>(); requestInfo.put(topicAndPartition, new PartitionOffsetRequestInfo(offset, 1)); kafka.javaapi.OffsetRequest request = new kafka.javaapi.OffsetRequest( requestInfo, (short) requiestedOffset, config.getGroupId()); OffsetResponse response = simpleConsumer.getOffsetsBefore(request);
if (response.hasError()) { return; } long[] offsets = response.offsets(topic, partition); On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Vadim, > > Which example in the kafka doc are you following? > > Guozhang > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Vadim Keylis <vkeylis2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Good afternoon. I am writing my own client that is based on simple > > consumer. I implemented method that is based on example in the kafka > > documents that sends request to kafka to find an offset. I am trying to > > find offsets after given offset. The api returns success even those > offset > > does not exist but offsets array has length of 0. What is the right way > to > > find next valid offset if the one been passed not found in Kafka. > > > > Thanks, > > Vadim > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >