By old consumer you mean version < .8? Here are the links:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+SimpleConsumer+Example https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Group+Example On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mohit, > > Are you referring to the new Java consumer or the old consumer? Or more > specifically what examples doc are you referring to? > > Guozhang > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I see most of the consumer examples create a while/for loop and then > fetch > > messages iteratively. Is that the only way by which clients can consumer > > messages? If this is the preferred way then how do you deal with > failures, > > exceptions such that messages are not lost. > > > > Also, please point me to examples that one would consider as a robust way > > of coding consumers. > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >