Hello Apache Kafka community, Current (Kafka 0.8.1.1) high-level API's KafkaConsumer is not lightweight object, it's creation takes some time and resources, and it does not seem to be thread-safe. It's API also does not support reuse, for consuming messages from different consumer groups.
I see even in the coming (0.8.2) redesigned API it will not be possible to reuse consumer instance to poll messages from different consumer groups. Can something be done to support this? Would it help if there was consumer group as a separate entity from consumer, for all the subscription management tasks? Kind regards, Stevo Slavic
