Any pointers guys? On 1 Jan 2015 15:26, "Mukesh Jha" <me.mukesh....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Experts, > > I'm using a kafka topic to store bunch of messages where the key contains > metadata and value is the data (avro file in our case). > There are multiple consumers for each topic and the consumer can decide if > the message is relevant for it or not based on the metadata i.e. the key of > the message. > Using this a group-consumer can check the key if the message is required > by it and then it can retrieve the entire message otherwise it'll just > commit the offset and move on to the next message. > > So I was wondering if kafka has an api in kafka that lets the consumer to > get just the metadata i.e. key, something like getMetadata instead > of getMessageAndMetadata? > > If kafka has something like this can you help me out with some > documentation for the same? > I think this will be useful in a lot of scenarios so if its not there I > can file a JIRA and take a dig at it. Let me know what you all think. > > Thanks for your help & suggestions. > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > > *Mukesh Jha <me.mukesh....@gmail.com>* >
