Either one will work, there is no semantic difference. The reason I designed the direct api to accept both of those keys is because they were used to define lists of brokers in pre-existing Kafka project apis. I don't know why the Kafka project chose to use 2 different configuration keys.
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:00 AM, James King <jakwebin...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-kafka-integration.html > > I'm trying to use the direct approach to read messages form Kafka. > > Kafka is running as a cluster and configured with Zookeeper. > > On the above page it mentions: > > "In the Kafka parameters, you must specify either *metadata.broker.list* > or *bootstrap.servers*. ..." > > Can someone please explain the difference of between the two config > parameters? > > And which one is more relevant in my case? > > Regards > jk >
