In some use cases it would be useful to be able to retrieve the last committed offsets of a connector and also be able to force those offsets at a later time (for example when restarting an app).
Typical usecase is index creation. Imagine you have a Lucene index which you are building. At (index) commit time, you add commit metadata which includes the current offsets. Should the app crash, you can retrieve the metadata from the last index commit and could start consuming messages right where you last stopped (i.e. at the time of last index commit). Is there any way to do that at the moment? Maybe fiddling with znodes directly? Mathias.
