If you had exactly 1 message in the 0th topicpartition, to read it you
would use
OffsetRange("topicname", 0, 0, 1)
Kafka's simple shell consumer in that case would print
next offset = 1
So instead trying to consume
OffsetRange("topicname", 0, 1, 2)
shouldn't be expected to work
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Nikos Viorres <nvior...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using KafkaUtils.createRDD to retrieve data from Kafka for batch
> processing and
> when Invoking KafkaUtils.createRDD with an OffsetRange where
> OffsetRange.fromOffset == OffsetRange.untilOffset for a particular
> partition, i get an empy RDD.
> Documentation is clear that until is exclusive and from inclusive, but if
> i use OffsetRange.untilOffset + 1 i get an invalid OffsetRange exception
> during the check.
> Sinve this should also apply in general (if untilOffset is exculsive you
> cannot fetch it ), does it mean that untilOffset is also non-existent in
> Kafka (and thus always exlcusive) or i am missing something?
>
> regards
>
> p.s. by manually using the kafka protocol to query the offsets i see
> that kafka.api.OffsetRequest.EarliestTime()
> == kafka.api.OffsetRequest.LatestTime() and set to a poisitive value
>
