[FLINK-3123] Allow setting custom start-offsets for the Kafka consumer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0, 1.3.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka
• Assignee: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
• Reporter: Robert Metzger
• Created: 05/Dec/15 09:52
• Updated: 13/Mar/17 15:59
• Resolved: 13/Mar/17 15:59

Description

Currently, the Kafka consumer only allows to start reading from the earliest available offset or the current offset.
Sometimes, users want to set a specific start offset themselves.

Issue Links

• depends upon: FLINK-3102 Allow reading from multiple topics with one FlinkKafkaConsumer
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2687