Kafka clients (currently) do not work against older Kafka brokers/servers so you have no other option but to upgrade to a 0.10.1.0 or higher Kafka broker.
-hans > On Dec 22, 2016, at 2:25 PM, Joanne Contact <joannenetw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello I have a program which requires 0.10.1.0 streams API. The jar is > packaged by maven with all dependencies. I tried to consume a Kafka > topic spit from a Kafka 9 cluster. > > It has such error: > org.apache.kafka.common.protocol.types.SchemaException: Error reading > field 'topic_metadata': Error reading array of size 1768180577, only > 167 bytes available > > I wonder if there is any work around? > > Thanks, > > J