Github user hmcl commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2465#discussion_r157349852
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external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpout.java
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@@ -225,6 +237,23 @@ private long doSeek(TopicPartition tp,
OffsetAndMetadata committedOffset) {
}
}
+ /**
+ * Checks If {@link OffsetAndMetadata} was committed by this topology,
either by this or another spout instance.
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We said the same thing and that is the intended behavior
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