You can refer this example[1] [1]: https://github.com/omkreddy/kafka-examples/blob/master/consumer/src/main/java/kafka/examples/consumer/advanced/AdvancedConsumer.java
- Kamal On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Vincent Dautremont < vincent.dautrem...@olamobile.com> wrote: > I had the same problem : > Call pause() on all partitions. > Then continue your loop that calls consume(), it will then poll without > consuming messages. > > When you want to consume again, call resume() on all partition > > It's not obvious at all, the doc should explain that in the documentation > of method consume() and put it in red and bold. > https://kafka.apache.org/090/javadoc/index.html?org/apache/ > kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.html > > > Le 28 sept. 2016 à 06:21, Yifan Ying <nafan...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > Hi all, > > > > 0.10 consumers use poll() method to heartbeat Kafka brokers. Is there any > > way that I can make the consumer heartbeat but not poll any messages? The > > javadoc says, the recommended way is to move message processing to > another > > thread. But when message processing keeps failing(because a third party > > service goes down for a while), the thread that actually processes > messages > > could have too many messages accumulated. Maybe re-sending failed > messages > > to another queue(IMQ) and re-processing them later is a good option? > > > > Thanks! > > -- > > Yifan >