Yep, you can try this lowlevel Kafka receiver https://github.com/dibbhatt/kafka-spark-consumer. Its much more flexible/reliable than the one comes with Spark.
Thanks Best Regards On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:15 PM, James King <jakwebin...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I want is if the driver dies for some reason and it is restarted I > want to read only messages that arrived into Kafka following the restart of > the driver program and re-connection to Kafka. > > Has anyone done this? any links or resources that can help explain this? > > Regards > jk > > >