Re: Is Kafka client 0.10.2.1 backward compatible

:21:04: > From: Tom Crayford <tcrayf...@heroku.com> > To: dev@kafka.apache.org > Date: 28/06/2017 15:21 > Subject: Re: Is Kafka client 0.10.2.1 backward compatible > > Kafka promises one thing and one thing only for backwards compatability, > which is that brokers with newer v

Re: Is Kafka client 0.10.2.1 backward compatible

Kafka promises one thing and one thing only for backwards compatability, which is that brokers with newer versions will always support older clients. The inverse: old brokers with new clients is not true. On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 6:18 AM, saurabh mimani wrote: > I am

Is Kafka client 0.10.2.1 backward compatible

I am trying to use partitionsFor method of kafka client 2.11: 0.10.2.1 for topics published by Kafka 0.8.2.x, but it gives timeout. Following are more details: I have a small Java spark service which uses kafka client