Many thanks Cody and contributors for the help.
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Cody Koeninger <c...@koeninger.org> wrote: > Either one will work, there is no semantic difference. > > The reason I designed the direct api to accept both of those keys is > because they were used to define lists of brokers in pre-existing Kafka > project apis. I don't know why the Kafka project chose to use 2 different > configuration keys. > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:00 AM, James King <jakwebin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: >> http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-kafka-integration.html >> >> I'm trying to use the direct approach to read messages form Kafka. >> >> Kafka is running as a cluster and configured with Zookeeper. >> >> On the above page it mentions: >> >> "In the Kafka parameters, you must specify either *metadata.broker.list* >> or *bootstrap.servers*. ..." >> >> Can someone please explain the difference of between the two config >> parameters? >> >> And which one is more relevant in my case? >> >> Regards >> jk >> > >
