Yeah, this works! The consumer API is able to update the consumer offset.
The only downside is to stop the real consumers.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Kevin A <k4m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't find an off-the-shelf tool to do this when I needed to a few weeks
> ago (which was kind of surprising).
>
> I used the kafka-python library (my company's wrappers around it, actually)
> to pretend I was in the consumer group I wanted to update and called commit
> with the offsets I wanted.
>
> First I stopped the real consumers. Then I ran my little script. Then
> re-started the real consumers.
>
> Hope that helps. (Or elicits a more effective response. ;))
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Yifan Ying <nafan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > Could you explain how you send messages to __consumer_offsets to
> overwrite
> > offsets? Thanks!
> >
> > Yifan
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jeff Widman <j...@netskope.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I also would like to know this.
> > >
> > > Is the solution to just use a console producer against the internal
> > topics
> > > that store the offsets?
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Yifan Ying <nafan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > In old consumers, we use the following command line tool to manually
> > > update
> > > > offsets stored in zk:
> > > >
> > > > *./kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.UpdateOffsetsInZK [latest |
> earliest]
> > > > [consumer.properties file path] [topic]*
> > > >
> > > > But it doesn't work with offsets stored in Kafka. How can I update
> the
> > > > Kafka offsets to latest?
> > > >
> > > > Yifan
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Yifan
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Yifan
> >
>



-- 
Yifan

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