Question: crcs for consumers

[bratushkadan]

Hello!

Is crcs enabled by default for consumers? If so, is it possible to disable it?

[twmb]

Yes it's enabled -- why disable it?

[bratushkadan]

I work with an implementation of message broker that is only partially compatible with the Kafka API.

It has two major limitations: crcs must be disabled and partition assingment for the consumers must be round robin. I figured out how to do configure the latter part in the library, but searching through documentation for crcs keyword didn't give me an idea on how I could disable it :(.

I would appreciate a tip on how to do that if there's a chance the parameter is configurable.

[twmb]

There's a chance ;)

Do you want to peruse the code and propose an option? There are very few places that need to change to disable the validation here; I think it's a pretty easy thing to wire through.