Thanks Ewen. Any idea when we can expect 0.8.3?
> On Aug 14, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava <e...@confluent.io> wrote: > > Hi Abhijith, > > You should be using KafkaProducer, but KafkaConsumer is not ready yet. The > APIs are included in 0.8.2.1, but the implementation is not ready. Until > 0.8.3 is released, you cannot rely only on kafka-clients if you want to > write a consumer. You'll need to depend on the main kafka jar and use > kafka.consumer.Consumer, as described on that wiki page. It has not been > deprecated yet since the new consumer implementation is not ready yet. > > -Ewen > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Abhijith Prabhakar <abhi.preda...@gmail.com >> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am newbie to Kafka and was looking to use java client implementation >> org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:0.8.2.1. I was trying to write a consumer >> group using example given here: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Group+Example < >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Group+Example> >> >> I see couple of issues here. >> >> 1. Above confluence page uses kafka.consumer.Consumer which seems to be >> deprecated and taken out in 0.8.2.1. >> 2. I realized that in documentation it mentions that 0.8.2 only has >> Producer implementation inside Java client. But I also see >> org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer in this 0.8.2.1 version. >> Not sure if this is ready to be used. Also javadoc on this class is >> different than 0.8.3 >> >> http://kafka.apache.org/083/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.html >> < >> http://kafka.apache.org/083/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.html >>> >> >> Can someone please let me know if using KafkaConsumer is a good idea? If >> yes, then please point me to an example. >> >> Thanks >> Abhi > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Ewen
