Github user srdo commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2538#discussion_r165853833
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external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/internal/CommitMetadataManager.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2018 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.storm.kafka.spout.internal;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.OffsetAndMetadata;
+import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition;
+import org.apache.storm.kafka.spout.KafkaSpout;
+import org.apache.storm.kafka.spout.KafkaSpoutConfig.ProcessingGuarantee;
+import org.apache.storm.task.TopologyContext;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Generates and reads commit metadata.
+ */
+public class CommitMetadataManager {
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It's in the internal package, so if we make it package private the spout
can't see it. I think it's up to users to figure out that if the class is in a
package called "internal", they probably shouldn't use it. Once we start
looking at Java 9 modularization we can make sure not to export this.
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