Paul, There is ongoing work to move to Kafka API instead of making calls to zookeeper. Here is the JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-650 . -Harsha
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015, at 01:02 PM, Paul Mackles wrote: > I noticed that the standard Kafka storm spout gets topic metadata from > zookeeper (under "/brokers/topics/") instead of issuing MetadataRequests > to one of the brokers. Aside from possible encapsulation issues, are > there any other downsides to using ZK this way? Are there significant > cases where ZK can be out-of-sync with the brokers? > > > I can see that the high-level consumer gets is topic metadata by issuing > MetadataRequests? to the brokers so I always assumed that was preferred. > > > Thanks, > > Paul > >