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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-3419: --------------------------------------- GitHub user hachikuji opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1158 KAFKA-3419: clarify difference between topic subscription and partition assignment You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/hachikuji/kafka KAFKA-3419 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1158.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1158 ---- commit b5016477dbff238636455d77dbaa1b05a7f34874 Author: Jason Gustafson <ja...@confluent.io> Date: 2016-03-28T18:54:19Z KAFKA-3419: clarify difference between topic subscription and partition assignment ---- > New consumer javadoc unclear on topic subscription vs partition assignment > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-3419 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3419 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: consumer > Reporter: Jason Gustafson > Assignee: Jason Gustafson > Fix For: 0.10.0.0 > > > We've tried to use the concepts of "topic subscription" and "partition > assignment" to distinguish between the old "high-level" and "simple" use > cases, but the javadoc is not very clear about this (e.g. there is still a > section titled "Subscribing to Specific Partitions"). Additionally, the > section on consumer groups is a little hard to follow in regard to the notion > of a group subscription. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)