Given the interest, I am also inclining towards making it a public
developer API. Maybe even experimental. Cody, mind submitting a patch?


On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth, I also use this class in an app, but it happens
> to be from Java code where it acts as if it's public. So no problem
> for my use case, but I suppose, another small vote for the usefulness
> of this class to the caller. I end up using getLatestLeaderOffsets to
> figure out how to initialize initial offsets.
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Cody Koeninger <c...@koeninger.org> wrote:
> > I personally think KafkaCluster (or the equivalent) should be made
> public.
> > When I'm deploying spark I just sed out the private[spark] and rebuild.
> >
> > There's a general reluctance to make things public due to backwards
> > compatibility, but if enough people ask for it... ?
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Jonathan Coveney <jcove...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> You can put a class in the org.apache.spark namespace to access anything
> >> that is private[spark]. You can then make enrichments there to access
> >> whatever you need. Just beware upgrade pain :)
> >>
> >>
> >> El martes, 6 de octubre de 2015, Erwan ALLAIN <eallain.po...@gmail.com>
> >> escribió:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I'm currently testing spark streaming with kafka.
> >>> I'm creating DirectStream with KafkaUtils and everything's fine.
> However
> >>> I would like to use the signature where I can specify my own message
> handler
> >>> (to play with partition and offset). In this case, I need to manage
> >>> offset/partition by myself to fill fromOffsets argument.
> >>> I have found a Jira on this usecase
> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6714 but it has been
> closed
> >>> telling that it's too specific.
> >>> I'm aware that it can be done using kafka api (TopicMetaDataRequest and
> >>> OffsetRequest) but what I have to do is almost the same as the
> KafkaCluster
> >>> which is private.
> >>>
> >>> is it possible to :
> >>>  - add another signature in KafkaUtils ?
> >>>  - make KafkaCluster public ?
> >>>
> >>> or do you have any other srmart solution where I don't need to
> copy/paste
> >>> KafkaCluster ?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Erwan ALLAIN
> >
> >
>
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