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Jay Kreps resolved KAFKA-170.
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Resolution: Duplicate
This is being solved in the new consumer api.
> Support for non-blocking polling on multiple streams
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> Key: KAFKA-170
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-170
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Jay Kreps
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: replication
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> Currently we provide a blocking iterator in the consumer. This is a good
> mechanism for consuming data from a single topic, but is limited as a
> mechanism for polling multiple streams.
> For example if one wants to implement a non-blocking union across multiple
> streams this is hard to do because calls may block indefinitely. A similar
> situation arrises if trying to implement a streaming join of between two
> streams.
> I would propose two changes:
> 1. Implement a next(timeout) interface on KafkaMessageStream. This will
> easily handle some simple cases with minimal change. This handles certain
> limited cases nicely and is easy to implement, but doesn't actually cover the
> two cases above.
> 2. Add an interface to poll streams.
> I don't know the best approach for the later api, but it is important to get
> it right. One option would be to add a
> ConsumerConnector.drainTopics("topic1", "topic2", ...) which blocks until
> there is at least one message and then returns a list of triples (topic,
> partition, message).
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