Rajiv, Could you let me know your use case? Are you sending a very large file and hence would prefer streaming manner instead of messages?
Guozhang On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Rajiv Kurian <ra...@signalfuse.com> wrote: > I have a flyweight style protocol that I use for my messages. Thus they > require no serialization/deserialization to be processed. The messages are > just offset, length pairs within a ByteBuffer. > > Is there a producer and consumer API that forgoes allocation? I just want > to give the kakfa producer offsets from a ByteBuffer. Similarly it would be > ideal if I could get a ByteBuffer and offsets into it from the consumer. > Even if I could get byte arrays (implying a copy but no decoding phase) on > the consumer that would be great. Right now it seems to me that the only > way to get messages from Kafka is through a message object, which implies > Kafka allocates these messages all the time. I am willing to use the > upcoming 0.9 API too. > > Thanks. > -- -- Guozhang
