The returned latest offset - 1 will be the offset of the last message. Sorry, should've made it clear in my last email. Let me know if that helps.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Orelowitz, David <david.orelow...@baml.com> wrote: > Neha, > > This seems to return the offset of the next message that will be > published. If I fetch at that offset I will block until a new message is > published to that partition. > > I am actually trying to read the contents of the latest message in the > partition, and based on info in the message resubscribe to the data source. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:n...@confluent.io] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 8:33 PM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Re: Reading only the latest message > > You can use the getOffsetsBefore() API and specify -1L to get the offset > of the last committed message (at the time of the request) for that > partition. > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Orelowitz, David < > david.orelow...@baml.com> > wrote: > > > What is the best mechanism to retrieve the latest message from a kafka > > partition. > > > > We intend for our producer, on startup or recovery, to read the > > upstream sequence number in the last message in the partition and > > request for the upstream system to start sending from that sequence > number++. > > > > Currently we are creating a SimpleConsumer and then calling > > getOffsetBefore() using the current wall time. We then decrement the > > offset returned and retrieve the message at this offset. We do manage > > the case when the offset is zero. > > > > It seem to work! > > > > Is this the right approach. > > > > Thanks, > > David > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) > > only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or > > proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at > > http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. If you are not the > > intended recipient, please delete this message. > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Neha > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, > may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary > and subject to important terms and conditions available at > http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. If you are not the > intended recipient, please delete this message. > -- Thanks, Neha
