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Status

Current state: "Under Discussion"

Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread] 

JIRA: here [Change the link from KAFKA-1 to your own ticket]5925 

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public DeleteRecordsResult deleteRecords(Map<TopicPartition, Long> partitionsAndOffsets)
public DeleteRecordsResult deleteRecords(Map<TopicPartition, Long> partitionsAndOffsets, DeleteRecordsOptions options)

Where :

TopicPartition comes from org.apache.kafka.common package

DeleteRecordsResult is defined as follow. 

public class DeleteRecordsResult {
    // package access constructor
    Map<TopicPartition, KafkaFuture<Long>> values() { ... }
    KafkaFuture<Long> all() { ... }
}

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Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

This is a new API and won't directly affect existing users. 

Rejected Alternatives

If there are alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing, what were they? The purpose of this section is to motivate why the design is the way it is and not some other way.