Github user srdo commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2907
Regarding looping offsets, I don't believe Kafka really does anything
special to handle offset value overflow (quick google turned up
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-users/201510.mbox/%3CCAE+KEuHikS71hEam=imt4K2OOirYf5hed=f3yhu3eym3uow...@mail.gmail.com%3E
and
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-users/201111.mbox/%3cCAFbh0Q3wXeivW9G+xre5eN8-SLVprdNLWyKmd+CcW6n=A=z...@mail.gmail.com%3e).
I think the assumption is that a long is large enough that wrapping around
realistically won't happen.---
