Hey Simon, The new consumer has the ability to forego group management and assign partitions directly. Once assigned, you can seek to any offset you want.
-Jason On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Simon Cooper < simon.coo...@featurespace.co.uk> wrote: > Reading on the consumer docs, there's no mention of a relatively simple > consumer that doesn't need groups, coordinators, commits, anything like > that - just read and poll from specified offsets of specific topic > partitions - but automatically deals with leadership changes and connection > losses (so one level up from SimpleConsumer). > > Will the new API be able to be used in this relatively simple way? > SimonC > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jun Rao [mailto:j...@confluent.io] > Sent: 03 August 2015 18:19 > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Re: new consumer api? > > Jalpesh, > > We are still iterating on the new consumer a bit and are waiting for some > of the security jiras to be committed. So now, we are shooting for > releasing 0.8.3 in Oct (just updated > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Future+release+plan). > > Thanks, > > Jun > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Jalpesh Patadia < > jalpesh.pata...@clickbank.com> wrote: > > > Hello guys, > > > > A while ago i read that the new consumer api was going to be released > > sometime in July as part of the 0.8.3/0.9 release. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Future+release+plan > > > > > > Do we have an update when we think that can happen? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jalpesh > > > > > > -- PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL This transmission may contain > > privileged, proprietary or confidential information. If you are not > > the intended recipient, you are instructed not to review this > > transmission. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the > > sender that you received this message and delete this transmission from > your system. > > >
