I meant you can read messages multiple times if you want to. Yes, you would store offset and request reading from an offset with Simple Consumer API to implement once and only once delivery.
regards On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Pete Wright <pwri...@rubiconproject.com> wrote: > > > On 04/15/15 09:31, Manoj Khangaonkar wrote: > > # I looked the documents of kafka and I see that there is no way a > >> consume instance can > >> read specific messages from partition. > >> > > > > With Kafka you read messages from the beginning multiple times. Since you > > say later that > > you do not have many messages per topic, you can iterate over the message > > and read the ones > > that you need. Of course this might not the be the most efficient. > > > > couldn't you also store the offset of the last read message, then resume > reading messages after that offset to ensure your consumer does not > consume the same message twice? > > Cheers, > -pete > > -- > Pete Wright > Lead Systems Architect > Rubicon Project > pwri...@rubiconproject.com > 310.309.9298 > -- http://khangaonkar.blogspot.com/
