[FLINK-3102] Allow reading from multiple topics with one FlinkKafkaConsumer

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka
• Assignee: Robert Metzger
• Reporter: Robert Metzger
• Created: 02/Dec/15 18:01
• Updated: 08/Dec/15 17:25
• Resolved: 08/Dec/15 17:25

Description

Currently, a Kafka consumer allows to read from only one topic.
For cases where multiple topics contain messages with the same schema, it is useful to allow to subscribe to many topics using one FlinkKafkaConsumer instance.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: FLINK-3123 Allow setting custom start-offsets for the Kafka consumer