As far as I know, with a consumer group implementation you cannot pin consumers to partitions. That logic is taken care of by the high level API on its own.
> On 23-Sep-2015, at 6:38 AM, Spandan Harithas Karamchedu > <spandanharit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We created a topic with 3 partitions and a replication factor of 3. We are > able to implement a consumer to get the data from a specific partition in a > topic but we are struck in implementing a consumer within a specified > consumer group to be mapped to single partition of a topic and get the data > from the single partition of the topic. Can you let us how we can configure > a consumer to a partition within consumer group? > > > > We wanted to develop a kafka cluster similar to below one as specified in > kafka docs. We are using kafka 0.8.1. > > > > > Thanks > > Spandan