Hey Craig, what exact problem you have with Sarama client?
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 5:11 PM Craig Ching <craigch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm working on debugging a problem with how message timestamps are handled > in the sarama client. In some cases, the sarama client won't associate a > timestamp with a message while the kafka console consumer does. I've found > the documentation on the message format here: > > https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#messageformat > > But the information there is very sparse. For instance, what are > 'firstTimestamp' and 'maxTimestamp'? It seems that when I'm debugging > sarama, firstTimestamp is set to -1 and maxTimestamp appears to be the > timestamp I want. Is there some state about the message that I need to > understand in order to have maxTimestamp be used? Any further > documentation or guidance on this would be very helpful! > > On another note, I am trying to debug this through the scala/java console > consumer, but I'm having a hard time getting IntelliJ setup. Is there > anything special or documentation I need to set this up for debugging? >