Yes, if you set the offset storage to Kafka, high level consumer will be using Kafka for all offset related operations.
Jiangjie (Becket) Qin On 4/27/15, 7:03 PM, "Gomathivinayagam Muthuvinayagam" <sankarm...@gmail.com> wrote: >I am trying to commit offset request in a background thread. I am able to >commit it so far. I am using high level consumer api. > >So if I just use high level consumer api, and if I have disabled auto >commit, with kafka as the storage for offsets, will the high level >consumer >api use automatically the offsets from kafka storage. > >If high level consumer api does not use the offsets automatically from >kafka storage, how do I enforce that? Is that possible? > >The above things are not clear from kafka documentation. > > >Thanks & Regards,