It is recommended you use the iterator() API since that invokes Kafka's ConsumerIterator which has state management logic for consuming Kafka messages properly. If you use toIterator(), it just gives you a plain Scala iterator over KafkaStream.
Thanks, Neha On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Sybrandy, Casey < casey.sybra...@six3systems.com> wrote: > Hello, > > What's the difference between the .toIterator() and .iterator() methods > for KafkaStream? I see they return different types and one of my coworkers > is noticing that when he uses .toIterator() will block at times where > .iterator() will not block. > > Casey > >
