Paul,
There is ongoing work to move to Kafka API instead of making
calls to zookeeper.
Here is the JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-650 .
-Harsha
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015, at 01:02 PM, Paul Mackles wrote:
> I noticed that the standard Kafka storm spout gets topic metadata from
> zookeeper (under "/brokers/topics/") instead of issuing MetadataRequests
> to one of the brokers. Aside from possible encapsulation issues, are
> there any other downsides to using ZK this way? Are there significant
> cases where ZK can be out-of-sync with the brokers?
>
>
> I can see that the high-level consumer gets is topic metadata by issuing
> MetadataRequests? to the brokers so I always assumed that was preferred.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
