Yes, that's probably the issue. If you repackage the Kafka jar, you need to include the following in the repacked jar that was included in the original Kafka jar. Our code looks for version info from there.
META-INF/ META-INF/MANIFEST.MF Thanks, Jun On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> wrote: > In this case, we have a single shaded jar for our app for deployment (so > just 1 jar on the classpath). Could that be the issue? E.g. all dependent > jars are unpacked into a single jar within our deployment system.... > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote: > > > Hmm, kafka-console-consumer in 0.8.2 rc2 is running fine. Do you have > > multiple kafka jars in your classpath? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jun > > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> > wrote: > > > > > 2015-01-23 00:55:25,273 WARN [async-message-sender-0] common.AppInfo$ > - > > > Can't read Kafka version from MANIFEST.MF. Possible cause: > > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > > > > >