If you use the high-level consumer, when the consumer gets an OffsetOutofRangeException, it will automatically reset to either the smallest or the largest available offset, depend on the config autooffset.reset.
Thanks, Jun On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Yonghui Zhao <zhaoyong...@gmail.com> wrote: > A little question， when old message log is deleted， the start point offset > is changed. If a simple consumer seek a offset less than start point > offset, what will happen? Read all message from start? > > > 2013/4/2 Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> > > > Essentially, > > > > There's a configuration property: log.retention.hours > > > > This determines the minimum time a message will remain available on the > > broker. The default is 7 days. > > > > The kafka broker doesn't keep track of whether the message has been > > consumed or not (or how many times it has been consumed). > > > > It's up to individual consumers to keep track of which message offset > > they've consumed (which typically gets saved in zookeeper). > > > > Jason > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Philip O'Toole <phi...@loggly.com> > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Ankit Jain <ankitjainc...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Once the message is consumed by consumer, we want it to delete from > > > message > > > > broker as well. > > > > > > > > > > Kafka doesn't work this way. Read the design doc -- it's well written, > > and > > > should be read by anyone working with Kafka. > > > > > > http://kafka.apache.org/design.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I was exploring the kafka configuration, but not sure which > > configuration > > > > would full my need. > > > > > > > > Guys, I need your help. > > > > > > > > Thanks .. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ankit Jain > > > > > > > > > >
