Client means client library. Basically, the bytes returned to the consumer may not include all the bytes of the last message. The consumer client library will figure out the boundary of the last complete message and use that info to initiate the next fetch request.
Thanks, Jun On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Vadim Chekan <kot.bege...@gmail.com> wrote: > From kafka spec of Fetch API: > "As an optimization the server is allowed to return a partial message at > the end of the message set. Clients should handle this case." > > What does "client" mean? Client's application, or kafka's communication > driver? > Also, what "partial message" means? Does it mean, that message can end > before MessageSet.MessageSize indicates? And how is it interpreted the next > message than? Does it starts with leftover of previous one, without header, > and header follows after leftover ends? > > Vadim. > > -- > From RFC 2631: In ASN.1, EXPLICIT tagging is implicit unless IMPLICIT is > explicitly specified >
