Github user hmcl commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2480#discussion_r158656447
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external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/KafkaUtils.java
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+package org.apache.storm.kafka;
+
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer;
+import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition;
+import org.apache.storm.kafka.spout.internal.OffsetManager;
+import org.apache.storm.metric.api.IMetric;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.TreeMap;
+
+public class KafkaUtils {
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Why the need of the KafkaUtils wrapper class? Why not just have the
KafkaOffsetMetric class ?
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