I would say you will get that 5th message in the next request. I don't believe under any circumstance a Kafka broker will send or receive a partial message.
On Feb 24, 2018 10:52 AM, "adrien ruffie" <adriennolar...@hotmail.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > > I have found this description in only documentation (without taking into > account spelling errors 'byes of messages'), a question stays in my mind ... > > what happens if the size does not fall correctly on a message number? > > Example if in one parition I have 10(messages) of 1024 bytes --> I have > 10240 bytes. > > But If I set the replica.fetch.max.bytes option to 5000, > > the 5th message will be splitted of of 120 bytes, and send after ? Or just > 4 messages will be sent and the 5th will be sent in the next fetch request ? > > > Thank and best regards, > > Adrien > > replica.fetch.max.bytes 1024 * 1024 The number of byes of messages to > attempt to fetch for each partition in the fetch requests the replicas send > to the leader. > >
