On 06/12/2012 12:59 PM, Jay Kreps wrote: > 2. Try to replace the "simple consumer" and "high level consumer" with a > single, general interface that has all the advantages of both.
I've read through the wiki pages but think I'm missing the forrest for the trees. For a consumer that wants "Manual partition assignment" and "Manual offset management", what does the proposed offer over the existing SimpleConsumer?