I am trying to write a Kafka client (specifically a consumer) and am using the protocol document at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol .
Had a specific question on the Offset Request API: OffsetRequest => ReplicaId [TopicName [Partition Time MaxNumberOfOffsets]] ReplicaId => int32 TopicName => string Partition => int32 Time => int64 MaxNumberOfOffsets => int32 What does the MaxNumberOfOffsets field here mean? I noticed that in the response: OffsetResponse => [TopicName [PartitionOffsets]] PartitionOffsets => Partition ErrorCode [Offset] Partition => int32 ErrorCode => int16 Offset => int64 Offset is an array of offsets. I am guessing this is where the MaxNumberOfOffsets comes from. I am not quite sure how to use this feature. So far I have been setting MaxNumberOfOffsets = 1. Thanks, Rajiv
