That argument takes a function from MessageAndMetadata to whatever you want your stream to contain.
See https://github.com/koeninger/kafka-exactly-once/blob/master/src/main/scala/example/TransactionalPerBatch.scala#L57 On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Deepesh Maheshwari < deepesh.maheshwar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My Spark application interacts with kafka for getting data through Java > Api. > I am using Direct Approach (No Receivers) - which use Kafka’s simple > consumer API to Read data. > So, kafka offsets need to be handles explicitly. > > In case of Spark failure i need to save the offset state of kafka for > resuming from the failure point. > I am saving these points in MongoDB. > > Please tell he how to initialize Kafka DirectStream with saved offset > points. > I want to initialize kafka stream in Spark Streaming with required offset > points. > > There is method i gets on web. > > KafkaUtils.createDirectStream(jssc, String.class, String.class, > StringDecoder.class, StringDecoder.class, kafkaParams, > topicsSet, fromOffsets, arg8); > > arg8 - kafka.message.MessageAndMetadata > > Please tell me how to handle and initialize this. > > Regards, > Deepesh >