Github user hmcl commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2454#discussion_r156208684
--- Diff:
external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpout.java
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@@ -223,29 +220,24 @@ private long doSeek(TopicPartition tp,
OffsetAndMetadata committedOffset) {
@Override
public void nextTuple() {
try {
- if (initialized) {
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Why is this flag no longer necessary?---
