this situation occurs when i killed some nodes from kafka nodes cluster. for the reason that the error code is zeor, i cannot find out the real reason
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fredo Lee <buaatianwa...@gmail.com> Date: 2015-11-23 20:45 GMT+08:00 Subject: cannot decode consumer metadata response To: users@kafka.apache.org i have four kafka nodes with broker id: 1,2,3,4 my kafka version is 0.8.2.2 i wrote a consumer client according to kafka protocol i killed one kafka node and wanted to reget coordinator broker. i got this binary string: 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,4,98,108,99,115,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0,0 every number is 8 bit length the first four number indicates that my CorrelationId is 0. but with this binary string, the coordinator broker is is wrong(here is 65540) how can i fix this question. this binary by consumer metatada endpoint is not always returned, but when returned, i always got it many times.