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Posted to dev@kafka.apache.org by Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com> on 2016/06/13 04:36:14 UTC

Re: Any restrictions on consumer group name?

Adding the Kafka dev list to cc, hoping they would answer this question.

-Jaikiran
On Friday 10 June 2016 11:18 AM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
> We are using 0.9.0.1 of Kafka server and (Java) clients. Our (Java) 
> consumers are assigned to dynamic runtime generated groups i.e. the 
> consumer group name is generated dynamically at runtime, using some 
> application specific logic. I have been looking at the docs but 
> haven't yet found anything that says if there is any restriction in 
> the length and/or characters that make up the consumer group name. Can 
> anyone confirm or point me to a doc which states whether or not there 
> any restrictions on it?
>
>
> -Jaikiran