Hi - I am making a few assumptions about the 0.8 high-level consumer API that I am looking to confirm:
-it is OK to have multiple ConsumerConnector objects in the same process? To be sure, they are all operating independently. I could probably shove everything into one ConsumerConnector if I had to but its easier to manage with separate objects and I have enough memory. Anyone aware of any gotchas with this? I haven't seen any issues with this so far but my testing hasn't been exhaustive (2 or 3 at at time). -is it OK to call ConsumerConnector.shutdown() whenever I want? In other words, if I find out that a downstream process has failed, can I just call ConsumerConnector.shutdown() at that moment (from another thread) or do I need to wait until the next ConsumerTimeout and call shutdown then? I haven't had a chance to test this yet but based on my understanding of how the consumer works, it seems like it should be OK. I am hoping that I can call shutdown() at anytime and that it will unblock any blocking calls. Thanks, Paul
