I guess it is called SimpleConsumer for a reason. Simple consumer is really simple and does not support any failure recovery. You might need to implement you own logic, it is probably not trivial though. As a reference, high level consumer uses Zookeeper ephemeral path to monitor the liveliness of consumers. Also, you might want to take a look at KafkaConsumer in the latest trunk, it is designed to replace most simple consume use cases. If you are going to implement your own auto recovery logic, maybe it is better to use KafkaConsumer instead of SimpleConsumer.
Thanks, Jiangjie (Becket) Qin On 7/5/15, 7:37 PM, "luo.fucong" <bayinam...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi all: > >The failover or re-balancing support seems only exist in High Level >Consumer. But we have some special considerations that we have to go with >the SimpleConsumer. I googled the problem but there are no answers. > >When the SimpleConsumer went down(due to some hardware errors or others >unexpected), what can I do to resume the consuming **automatically**? > >
