Then any idea on why I am seeing this error RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR__UNKNOWN_GROUP without group id?
-----Original Message----- From: Akshata akshu [mailto:akshataaksh...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 11:20 PM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Re: group id issue on kafka using C library Hi, Group id is not mandatory. If you create a consumer without the group id random group id is assigned for the consumer. On Sun 10 Mar, 2019 11:08 pm K R, Rakesh, <r...@hpe.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am completely new to this kafka. > I was just playing around with example code provided in the repo > https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/tree/master/examples. > I have encountered an issue where rd_kafka_poll_set_consumer() api > throws me an error saying Local: Unknown group > (RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR__UNKNOWN_GROUP ) Using consumer group is mandatory? > I am using librdkafka v1.0.0 (0x10000ff) > > Thanks & Regards, > Rakesh K R > >