Looking at Consumer Configs in http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#consumerconfigs
The properties *metadata.broker.list* or *bootstrap.servers *are not mentioned. Should I need these for consume side? On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:52 PM, James King <jakwebin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> >> >> >
