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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-8118: --------------------------------------- Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5056#discussion_r152763593 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-base/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/KafkaTableSource.java --- @@ -309,6 +356,51 @@ public B withKafkaTimestampAsRowtimeAttribute( return builder(); } + /** + * Configures the TableSource to start reading from the earliest offset for all partitions. + * + * @see FlinkKafkaConsumerBase#setStartFromEarliest() + */ + public B startReadingFromEarliest() { + this.startupMode = StartupMode.EARLIEST; + this.specificStartupOffsets = null; + return builder(); + } + + /** + * Configures the TableSource to start reading from the latest offset for all partitions. + * + * @see FlinkKafkaConsumerBase#setStartFromLatest() + */ + public B startReadingFromLatest() { --- End diff -- shorten to `fromLatestOffsets`? > Allow to specify the offsets of KafkaTableSources > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-8118 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8118 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Table API & SQL > Affects Versions: 1.4.0 > Reporter: Timo Walther > Assignee: Xingcan Cui > > Right now the Kafka TableSources can only read from the current group offset. > We should expose the possibilities of the Kafka Consumer: > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.4/dev/connectors/kafka.html#kafka-consumers-start-position-configuration -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)