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Ross Black commented on KAFKA-364:
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In the API redesign, it would be nice to somehow allow for flexible/pluggable
control of the allocation of [broker:partition] from producers and to consumers
when using zookeeper management.
I currently use SyncProducer and SimpleConsumer to directly control the set of
[broker:partition] that a producer writes to and that a consumer reads from.
I need this for a scenario where the consumer holds some state (like a cache)
on local disk. It is expensive to discard the local state - the consumer must
then instead perform a remote lookup with a very high latency. (> 5mins). I
need the partitioning performed by a producer to remain fixed until explicitly
changed (the number of producers is relatively static, and each producer sends
messages into a dedicated broker). I need each consumer to fetch the same
partitions unless a consumer has failed for more than some period of time
(approx 5 mins) so that if it recovers quickly I have not wastefully discarded
local state.
Currently if I use Producer with zookeeper, the Partitioner API allows me to
partition messages, but then kafka code in the Producer controls allocation of
the Partitioner result to a physical [broker:partition]. If I use Producer
with fixed brokers, messages are allocated to random partitions. If I use the
high level consumer, kafka code in ZookeeperConsumerConnector controls the
allocation of [broker:partition] to available consumers.
I understand if this is an over-specialised use-case to cater for. At minimum
I would like the equivalent functionality of SyncProducer and SimpleConsumer to
be preserved in a public API.
Thanks,
Ross
> Consumer re-design
> ------------------
>
> Key: KAFKA-364
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-364
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Neha Narkhede
> Assignee: Neha Narkhede
>
> We've received quite a lot of feedback on the consumer side features over the
> past few months. Some of them are improvements to the current consumer design
> and some are simply new feature/API requests. I have attempted to write up
> the requirements that I've heard on this wiki -
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Client+Re-Design
> This would involve some significant changes to the consumer APIs, so we would
> like to collect feedback on the proposal from our community. Since the list
> of changes is not small, we would like to understand if some features are
> preferred over others, and more importantly, if some features are not
> required at all.
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