Stream where the elements themselves are Streams which continually request records for a single partition. These Streams will have to be processed in parallel, using parJoin or parJoinUnbounded. Note that when using parJoin(n) and n is smaller than the number of currently assigned partitions, then there will be assigned partitions which won't be processed. For that reason, prefer parJoinUnbounded and the actual limit will be the number of assigned partitions.

If you do not want to process all partitions in parallel, then you can use records instead, where records for all partitions are in a single Stream.

Stream where each element contains a Map with all newly assigned partitions. Keys of this Map are TopicPartitions, and values are record streams for the particular TopicPartition. These streams will be closed only when a partition is revoked.

With the default assignor, all previous partitions are revoked at once, and a new set of partitions is assigned to a consumer on each rebalance. In this case, each returned Map contains the full partition assignment for the consumer. And all streams from the previous assignment are closed. It means, that partitionsMapStream reflects the default assignment process in a streaming manner.

This may not be the case when a custom assignor is configured in the consumer. When using the CooperativeStickyAssignor, for instance, partitions may be revoked individually. In this case, each element in the stream (eachMap) will contain only streams for newly assigned partitions. Previously returned streams for partitions that are retained will remain active. Only streams for revoked partitions will be closed.

This is the most generic Stream method. If you don't need such control, consider using partitionedStream or stream methods. They are both based on a partitionsMapStream.

Stops consuming new messages from Kafka. This method could be used to implement a graceful shutdown.

This method has a few effects:

• After this call no more data will be fetched from Kafka through the poll method.
• All currently running streams will continue to run until all in-flight messages will be processed. It means that streams will be completed when all fetched messages will be processed.
  
  

If some of the records methods will be called after stopConsuming call, these methods will return empty streams.

More than one call of stopConsuming will have no effect.

Alias for partitionedStream.parJoinUnbounded.

Consume from all assigned partitions concurrently, processing the records in Chunks. For each Chunk, the provided processor is called, after that has finished the offsets for all messages in the chunk are committed.

This method is intended to be used in cases that require at-least-once-delivery, where messages have to be processed before offsets are committed. By relying on the methods like partitionedStream, records, and similar, you have to correctly implement not only your processing logic but also the correct mechanism for committing offsets. This can be tricky to do in a correct and efficient way.

Working with Chunks of records has several benefits:

• As a user, you don't have to care about committing offsets correctly. You can focus on implementing your business logic
  
• It's very straightforward to batch several messages from a Chunk together, e.g. for efficient writes to a persistent storage
  
• You can liberally use logic that involves concurrency, filtering, and re-ordering of messages without having to worry about incorrect offset commits
  

The processor is a function that takes a Chunk[ConsumerRecord[K, V]] and returns a F[CommitNow]. CommitNow is isomorphic to Unit, but helps in transporting the intention that processing of a Chunk is done, offsets should be committed, and no important processing should be done afterwards.

The returned value has the type F[Nothing], because it's a never-ending process that doesn't terminate, and therefore doesn't return a result.

Alias for partitionedStream

Consume from all assigned partitions, producing a stream of CommittableConsumerRecords. Alias for stream.