[KAFKA-7127] Add asynchronous support for methods in KafkaConsumer

• Type: Wish
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: clients
• Labels: needs-discussion needs-kip
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Richard Yu
• Created: 02/Jul/18 07:00
• Updated: 02/Jul/18 07:06

Description

Currently, in KafkaConsumer, various methods blocks due to a remote callback. It would be nice if we also added asynchronous version of these methods, like what was done with  commitAsync() which uses a OffsetCommitCallback as an input argument.