Currently, as you are iterating messages returned by SimpleConsumer, you also get the offset for the next message. In the map, you can just run for 30 mins and save the next offset for the next run.
Thanks, Jun On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:01 AM, R S <mypostbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi , > > I looked at hadoop-consumer , which fetches data directly from the kafka > broker . But from what i understand it is based on min and max offset and > map task complete once they reach the maximum offset for a given topic . > > In our use case we would not know about the max offset before hand. Instead > we want map to keep reading data from a min offset and roll over every 30 > mins . At 30th min we would again generate the offsets which would be used > for the next run. > > any suggestions would be helpful . > > regards, > rks >
