There's not a precise date for the release, ~1.5 or 2 months from now. On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Abhijith Prabhakar <abhi.preda...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Thanks Ewen. Any idea when we can expect 0.8.3? > > > > On Aug 14, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava <e...@confluent.io> > wrote: > > > > Hi Abhijith, > > > > You should be using KafkaProducer, but KafkaConsumer is not ready yet. > The > > APIs are included in 0.8.2.1, but the implementation is not ready. Until > > 0.8.3 is released, you cannot rely only on kafka-clients if you want to > > write a consumer. You'll need to depend on the main kafka jar and use > > kafka.consumer.Consumer, as described on that wiki page. It has not been > > deprecated yet since the new consumer implementation is not ready yet. > > > > -Ewen > > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Abhijith Prabhakar < > abhi.preda...@gmail.com > >> wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I am newbie to Kafka and was looking to use java client implementation > >> org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:0.8.2.1. I was trying to write a > consumer > >> group using example given here: > >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Group+Example < > >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Group+Example> > >> > >> I see couple of issues here. > >> > >> 1. Above confluence page uses kafka.consumer.Consumer which seems to be > >> deprecated and taken out in 0.8.2.1. > >> 2. I realized that in documentation it mentions that 0.8.2 only has > >> Producer implementation inside Java client. But I also see > >> org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer in this 0.8.2.1 version. > >> Not sure if this is ready to be used. Also javadoc on this class is > >> different than 0.8.3 > >> > >> > http://kafka.apache.org/083/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.html > >> < > >> > http://kafka.apache.org/083/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.html > >>> > >> > >> Can someone please let me know if using KafkaConsumer is a good idea? > If > >> yes, then please point me to an example. > >> > >> Thanks > >> Abhi > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Ewen > > -- Thanks, Ewen
