I think this is a usability issue. It might need an extra admin tool to verify 
if all configuration settings are correct, even if the broker can return an 
error message to the consumers. 

Thanks, 

Xiao Li

On Mar 17, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Jiangjie Qin <j...@linkedin.com.INVALID> wrote:

> The problem is the consumers are independent to each other. We purely
> depend on the same algorithm running on different consumers to achieve
> agreement on partition assignment. Breaking this assumption violates the
> design in the first place.
> 
> On 3/17/15, 4:13 PM, "Mayuresh Gharat" <gharatmayures...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Probably we should return an error response if you already have a
>> partition
>> assignment strategy inplace for a group and you try to use other strategy.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Mayuresh
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Jiangjie Qin <j...@linkedin.com.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yeah, using different partition assignment algorithms in the same
>>> consumer
>>> group won¹t work. Is there a particular reason you want to do this?
>>> 
>>> On 3/17/15, 8:32 AM, "tao xiao" <xiaotao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This is the corrected zk result
>>>> 
>>>> Here is the result from zk
>>>> [zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 0] get
>>>> /consumers/test/owners/mm-benchmark-test/0
>>>> 
>>>> Node does not exist: /consumers/test/owners/mm-benchmark-test/0
>>>> 
>>>> [zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 1] get
>>>> /consumers/test/owners/mm-benchmark-test1/0
>>>> 
>>>> test-localhost-1426605370072-904d6fba-0
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:30 PM, tao xiao <xiaotao...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi team,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have two consumer instances with the same group id connecting to
>>> two
>>>>> different topics with 1 partition created for each. One consumer uses
>>>>> partition.assignment.strategy=roundrobin and the other one uses
>>> default
>>>>> assignment strategy. Both consumers have 1 thread spawned internally
>>> and
>>>>> connect kafka using createMessageStreamsByFilter.
>>>>> The consumer with roundrobin assignment strategy connected kafka
>>> first
>>>>> and
>>>>> had 2 topics assigned to itself and then I brought up another
>>> consumer
>>>>> that
>>>>> has default assignment strategy configured. I saw rebalancing
>>> happened
>>>>> in
>>>>> both consumers but at the end only one of the topics was assigned to
>>> the
>>>>> consumer that is configured roundrobin assignment strategy and no
>>> topics
>>>>> were assigned to the other consumer. This led to one topic missing
>>> its
>>>>> owner.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here is the result from zk
>>>>> [zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 0] get
>>>>> /consumers/test/owners/mm-benchmark-test/0
>>>>> 
>>>>> Node does not exist:
>>>>> /consumers/test12345667fffff/owners/mm-benchmark-test/0
>>>>> 
>>>>> [zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 1] get
>>>>> /consumers/test/owners/mm-benchmark-test1/0
>>>>> 
>>>>> test-localhost-1426605370072-904d6fba-0
>>>>> 
>>>>> The kafka version I use is 0.8.2.1
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Tao
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Tao
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> -Regards,
>> Mayuresh R. Gharat
>> (862) 250-7125
> 

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