Github user Parth-Brahmbhatt commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/338#issuecomment-65885304
I agree with Sriharsha. The current code relies too heavily on kafka's
internal zk metadata storage. This is fragile, we should not be depending
directly on any of the kafka's internal metadata details. Given we have APIs
available to get the same information, it is better to rely on them.
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