So, I know I can put group.id in the consumer.config file, but I would like to reuse the same config file for multiple groups in testing. I *thought* this would work:
kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server <servers> --new-consumer --consumer.config <consumer.properties path> --topic <topic> --property group.id=<group-id> That doesn't produce an error, but it also ignores the group.id property and generates a group id, which doesn't have access to the topic I'm testing against. So, *should* that work? If not, why not? Maybe it's just a bug? Also, why is --bootstrap-server required when I have it set in the config file? The console producer has a similar issue that --broker-list is required despite bootstrap.servers being in the config file. Thanks in advance. Greg
