Github user zjureel commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3915
@tzulitai Glad to hear from you. In fact I'm also entangled with whether to
put the `setStartFromSpecificDate` method into `FlinkKafkaConsumerBase`, and I
put it into `FlinkKafkaComsumerBase` finally for two reasons:
1. All the other methods that set the Kafka start offset are in
`FlinkKafkaConsumerBase`, to keep it aligned, I put `setStartFromSpecificDate`
in `FlinkKafkaComsumerBase`
2. For subsequent versions of Kafka, such as version 0.11, this feature
should be available also, but it may need to extend from the
`FlinkKafkaConsumerBase` directly. I think this method will be used in multiple
implements, so I put `setStartFromSpecificDate` in `FlinkKafkaComsumerBase`
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