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ASF GitHub Bot commented on STORM-1755:
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Github user abhishekagarwal87 commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1386#issuecomment-216558668
Yes. Good thing is storm-kafka doesn't use any api only available in kafka
0.9.x and thus can still run with kafka 0.8.x by simply excluding dependency.
> Revert the kafka client version upgrade in storm-kafka module
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> Key: STORM-1755
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-1755
> Project: Apache Storm
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: storm-kafka
> Affects Versions: 1.0.1
> Reporter: Abhishek Agarwal
> Assignee: Abhishek Agarwal
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> storm-kafka module does not use any feature of new API. The newer kafka
> client (0.9.x) is not backward compatible with 0.8.x brokers and upgrading
> storm-kafka version in topology could break the currently running topologies.
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