{"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/edenhill/librdkafka/comments/14042680","html_url":"https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/commit/689b8f85248659409d219ac9fab921f26eda1bc6#commitcomment-14042680","id":14042680,"user":{"login":"edenhill","id":524990,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/524990?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill","html_url":"https://github.com/edenhill","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/edenhill/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"position":null,"line":null,"path":"","commit_id":"689b8f85248659409d219ac9fab921f26eda1bc6","created_at":"2015-10-28T15:30:11Z","updated_at":"2015-10-28T15:30:11Z","body":"@fsaintjacques \r\n\r\nBroker based offsets will be supported for legacy/simple consumer too.\r\n\r\nI started off by mimicing the new Java KafkaConsumer interface and I will try to make librdkafka's KafkaConsumer API as similar to the Java one as possible, without loosing C idiomacy.\r\nIn this particular case, Serializers/Deserializers, I dont think there is any real use for it in the C interface due to lack of generics. The point would be to minimize the amount of application code needed, and that would not be the case here.\r\n"}}