I'm a bit confused. How do you discover that new topics have been created? If you discover a new topic somehow, how do you know it's one you are interested in?
I suppose you could have a consumer which subscribes to all topics using pattern=".", then have it just publish new topic names to a fixed "new topics" topic. You could subscribe to that. Still, with no pattern to the name you'd need some external information (database query?) to decide if you wanted to subscribe to it. Skip On Jan 6, 2018 10:43 AM, "chintan mavawala" <chintan25...@gmail.com> wrote: > In theory pattern "." would work. But that would mean subscribing on all > topics which I don't want. > > I share same pain in using pattern which is why I would like to know if it > is good practice to subscribe to topics after kafka consumer has started. > > Regards, > Chintan > > On 06-Jan-2018 5:47 PM, "Skip Montanaro" <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In theory, wouldn't > > consumer.subscribe(pattern=".") > > work? I say "in theory" because my experience with subscribing by pattern > hasn't been great. I suspect my mental model of how it's implemented isn't > a close approximation of reality. > > Skip > > On Jan 6, 2018 4:07 AM, "chintan mavawala" <chintan25...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to subscribe to all topics as they are created but topic names does > not have any pattern. Consumer starts with subscription to let's say 3 > topics and add more topics to exisiting kafka consumer as they are created. > > Regards, > Chintan > > On 04-Jan-2018 11:02 PM, "Jordan Pilat" <jrpi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Did you want to subscribe to all topics as they are created, or to > exclude > > some of them? > > If the latter, is there a pattern in the names of the topics you wish to > > exclude? > > > > - Jordan Pilat > > > > On 2018-01-03 23:39, chintan mavawala <chintan25...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We have a use case where we need to start kafka consumer with a fixed > > list > > > of kafka topics and add more topics on the fly. Since there is no > pattern > > > in names of topics, using pattern for dynamic subscriptions of topics > is > > > not feasible. > > > > > > Is it a good practice to subscribe to topics on given kafka consumer on > > fly > > > using after starting consumer? > > > > > > I understand that KafkaConsumer is not thread safe. Any ill effects due > > to > > > multi threaded env? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Chintan > > > > > >
