Github user srdo commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2147#discussion_r119449375
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external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpout.java
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@@ -170,10 +182,13 @@ private void initialize(Collection<TopicPartition>
partitions) {
final long fetchOffset = doSeek(tp, committedOffset);
setAcked(tp, fetchOffset);
}
- initialized = true;
+
+ task.start();
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Huh, you're right. Learn something every day :)
We already have manual assignment implementations ready to go
[here](https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/master/external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/ManualPartitionNamedSubscription.java)
and
[here](https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/master/external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/ManualPartitionPatternSubscription.java),
the user just has to configure the spout to use them with one of these
builders
https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/master/external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpoutConfig.java#L136
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