Is 0.9.0 still under development? I don't see it here: http://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > The links you are referring are for the old consumer. > > If you are using the ZooKeeper based high-level version of the old consumer > which is described in the second link, then failures are handled and > abstracted from you so that if there is a failure in the current process, > its fetching partitions will be re-assigned to other consumers within the > same group starting at the last checkpointed offset. And offsets can be > either checkpointed periodically or manually throw consumer.commit() calls. > > BTW, in the coming 0.9.0 release there is a new consumer written in Java > which uses a poll() based API instead of a stream iterating API. More > details can be found here in case you are interested in trying it out: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Client+Re-Design > > Guozhang > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > By old consumer you mean version < .8? > > > > Here are the links: > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+SimpleConsumer+Example > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Group+Example > > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Mohit, > > > > > > Are you referring to the new Java consumer or the old consumer? Or more > > > specifically what examples doc are you referring to? > > > > > > Guozhang > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Mohit Anchlia < > mohitanch...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I see most of the consumer examples create a while/for loop and then > > > fetch > > > > messages iteratively. Is that the only way by which clients can > > consumer > > > > messages? If this is the preferred way then how do you deal with > > > failures, > > > > exceptions such that messages are not lost. > > > > > > > > Also, please point me to examples that one would consider as a robust > > way > > > > of coding consumers. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- Guozhang > > > > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >
