David, The API that you are looking for is OffsetRequest. If you pass in -2 as the value for Time, it will get you the earliest offset available for that partition. If you pass in -1, it will get you the latest offset.
You can find more information about the OffsetRequest and OffsetResponse APIs here - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol#AGuideToTheKafkaProtocol-OffsetAPI Please let us know if that description can be improved. Thanks, Neha On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:31 PM, David Arthur <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there currently a way to get the latest offset (or close to the latest) > for a partition? Is this covered by the Offset API, and if so could someone > explain this API a bit? > > I'd like to write a consumer that can start from 0 (like unix cat) or > start from the most recent (like unix tail). > > Thanks! > -David >
