[SUGGESTION] Stack Overflow Documentation for Apache Flink

2016-09-04 Thread Vishnu Viswanath
Hi All, Why don't we make use of Stackoverflow's new documentation feature to do some documentation of Apache Flink. To start, at least 5 SO users should commit to document, who has at least150 reputation and have at least 1 positively scored answer in Flink tag. http://stackoverflow.com/documen

Re: Kafka SimpleStringConsumer NPE

2016-09-04 Thread Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
Hi David, Is it possible that your Kafka installation is an older version than 0.9? Or you may have used a different Kafka client major version in your job jar's dependency? This seems like an odd incompatible protocol with the Kafka broker to me, as the client in the Kafka consumer is reading