Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5200#discussion_r160599433 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-base/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/internals/AbstractFetcher.java --- @@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ * the Flink data streams. * @param <KPH> The type of topic/partition identifier used by Kafka in the specific version. */ -public abstract class AbstractFetcher<T, KPH> { +public abstract class AbstractFetcher<T, KPH> implements KafkaOffsetCommitter { --- End diff -- The result could also very well be that we should use this opportunity to refactor the vague dependencies between fetcher / consumer thread / consumer base, and include in this PR. I would not be against that.
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