How to consume n latest messages from a Kafka partition
Available in version
1.3.25onwards.
Consuming the latest message
The challenge here is you may not know the offset number of the last message deterministically, hence “-1”, “-2” etc helps here, because whatever is the offset, it will always read the messages from the end of the partition.
offset 1 offset 2 offset 3 offset 4
order4-guitar order3-flute order2-acoustic-piano order1-digital-piano
-4 -3 -2 -1To consume the last record i.e. the record at the last offset, use the following.
"seek": "order-topic,0,-1", In the above, topic=order-topic, partition=0, offset=the offset of the last record.
See an example of a scenario step below to read the lat message “order1-digital-piano” at “offset4”
{
"name": "consume_last1",
"url": "kafka-topic:order-topic",
"operation": "CONSUME",
"request": {
"consumerLocalConfigs": {
"seek": "order-topic,0,-1",
"commitSync": true,
"recordType": "RAW",
"showRecordsConsumed": true,
"maxNoOfRetryPollsOrTimeouts": 3
}
},
"assertions": {
"size": 1
}
}Consuming the latest two messages To consume the last 2(two) records, “order1-digital-piano” at “offset4” and “order2-acoustic-piano” at “offset3”
“seek”: “order-topic,0,-2”, See an example of a scenario step below:
{
"name": "consume_last1",
"url": "kafka-topic:order-topic",
"operation": "CONSUME",
"request": {
"consumerLocalConfigs": {
"seek": "order-topic,0,-2",
"commitSync": true,
"recordType": "RAW",
"showRecordsConsumed": true,
"maxNoOfRetryPollsOrTimeouts": 3
}
},
"assertions": {
"size": 1
}
}Consuming the latest n messages To consume the last n records, use the following
"seek": "order-topic,0,-n"See an example of a scenario step below:
{
"name": "consume_last1",
"url": "kafka-topic:order-topic",
"operation": "CONSUME",
"request": {
"consumerLocalConfigs": {
"seek": "order-topic,0,-n",
"commitSync": true,
"recordType": "RAW",
"showRecordsConsumed": true,
"maxNoOfRetryPollsOrTimeouts": 3
}
},
"assertions": {
"size": 1
}
}