ijuma commented on a change in pull request #8585: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/8585#discussion_r420805481
########## File path: core/src/main/scala/kafka/server/ReplicaManager.scala ########## @@ -949,8 +949,11 @@ class ReplicaManager(val config: KafkaConfig, else FetchHighWatermark - // Restrict fetching to leader if request is from follower or from a client with older version (no ClientMetadata) - val fetchOnlyFromLeader = isFromFollower || (isFromConsumer && clientMetadata.isEmpty) + // Restrict fetching to leader if request is from follower or from an ordinary consumer + // with an older version (which is implied by no ClientMetadata) Review comment: Can we remove `DebuggingConsumerId` altogether or is there any functionality that it provides in today's world? If it doesn't provide any useful functionality now, I would just remove it and it's one less concept to support and think about. As you said, I don't think anyone actually uses this outside of the `ReplicaVerificationTool`. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org