Github user nabhanelrahman commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1474#discussion_r66368337 --- Diff: external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpout.java --- @@ -72,8 +72,10 @@ private transient boolean initialized; // Flag indicating that the spout is still undergoing initialization process. // Initialization is only complete after the first call to KafkaSpoutConsumerRebalanceListener.onPartitionsAssigned() + private KafkaSpoutStream kafkaSpoutStream; --- End diff -- KafkaSpoutStreams is a collection of KafkaSpoutStream because you can have multiple topics for the kafkaconsumer.subscribe(List<String topics... ) That is not the case of kafkaconsumer.subscribe(Pattern ). You can only have one pattern per Spout, so it doesn't make sense to put in Streams instead of Stream
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