Thanks Vincent and Kamal. That solves my problem. :) Yifan
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Kamal C <kamaltar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Yifan