GitHub user dguy opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2627
[WIP]: add a consumer leave group config Add a new config to ConsumerConfig, `leave.group.on.close`. When set to `false` then the `AbstractCoordinator` will not send the `LeaveGroupRequest`. Default is `true`. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dguy/kafka consumer-leave-group-config Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2627.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2627 ---- commit 785eb1cb5f06dc3dc9d5f590f4bfd170adf2a464 Author: Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> Date: 2017-03-01T17:20:53Z blah commit 4f4b710ac84fe4a70daa6335ac42f9c64152b959 Author: Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> Date: 2017-03-02T10:29:21Z add leave.group.on.close config to consumer ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---