Hi All, Apologies if I've missed something obvious.
First, is there any reason not to call the ConsumerConnector.createMessageStreams() more than once to create streams for the same topic? Or should all streams be created at a single point in time? Second, is there a "safe" way to stop reading from a KafkaMessageStream? Currently I'm just interrupting the thread when I need to stop reading from the stream. There is no "close" or "shutdown" method though. (Also, the Scala class doesn't annotate that InterruptedException can be thrown, requiring some gymnastics to be performed into to correctly handle that exception.) Third, (depending on the answer to 2) is it better to create more than one ConsumerConnector to manage sets of streams? The ConsumerConnector seems to have a clear "shutdown" method. Calling that would shut down all the streams that are associated with it. Fourth, I see the "consumerTimeoutMs" attribute to timeout a consumer. Is there a cleaner way to achieve this at a more granular level? For instance, providing a timeout duration in the call to ConsumerIterator.next() that will simply return null? Thanks, Matt
