API for getting first and last offset of a partition

[winbatch]

Is this possible?

[edenhill]

There is currently no such API.

If you need this for the consumer you can call rd_kafka_consumer_start() with the special values of RD_KAFKA_OFFSET_BEGINNING or RD_KAFKA_OFFSET_END.

What is your use case?

[winbatch]

Those values should be good enough. I wanted to start consuming from the beginning, but since messages had already been purged, I didn't know from where to start

[winbatch]

Brew, can you add those options to the sample progs? I believe they only take an offset

[winbatch]

'Btw', not 'brew'. Damn you autocorrect!

[edenhill]

You can run rdkafka_example with the -o <offset> argument where offset is -1 for END and -2 is BEGINNING, or an absolute actual offset (e.g, 238592).

[winbatch]

Excellent. Thanks.