The partition api is exposed to the consumer in 0.8.2. Thanks,
Jun On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Gaurav Agarwal <gaurav130...@gmail.com> wrote: > After retrieving a kafka stream or kafka message how to get the > corresponding partition number to which it belongs ? I am using kafka > version 0.8.1. > More specifically kafka.consumer.KafkaStream and > kafka.message.MessageAndMetaData classes, does not provide API to retrieve > partition number. Are there any other API's to get the partition number? > > IF there are multiple partitions of a topic ,Do i need to declare from java > code how many partitions the topic contains or i can leave it topic > Kafkastream will take the partition information from kafka broker at > runtime.? >