Correction, leader was an Option, and I guess Optional cannot be used yet because Java language level compatibility is too low. What a mess, Java and Scala in codebase, and even new code being written in old Java.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Apache Kafka community, > > Scala API had hasLeader method in PartitionMetadata of MetadatResponse. I > see new Java API does not have such method and there's no javadoc on the > class. Can somebody please explain - will leader reference be null or > something when partition has no leader? Why not encode this into a method > like hasLeader? > > Kind regards, > Stevo Slavic. >
