Hi,
I am using Kafka_2.9.2-0.8.2 and play a bit with offsets in my code. I would like to know how is implemented the offset system for message posting. The main question here is: for every message posted, it gets an offset greater that the previous one, meaning that message1 gets offset x and message2 gets offset x+1 but how far can offset go ? Offset does loop and comeback to zero at a point, right ? Is it deterministic ? Is it just a huge constant and the offset is incremented modulo(%) this constant ? The fact is that I store the offset in my code and like to update it regarding to the treatments i do, but I imagine that i cannot just increase it every time i read a message (i read in the middle of topic). I tried to find out how it was in your source code but it did not really turned to be success. Thank you for your possible answer and for kafka ! Clément Dussieux
