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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# Copyright 2016 Confluent Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+#
+# Example high-level Kafka 0.9 balanced Consumer
+#
+from confluent_kafka import Consumer, KafkaError
+import sys
+import getopt
+import json
+import logging
+from pprint import pformat
+
+def print_usage_and_exit(program_name):
+    sys.stderr.write('Usage: %s [options..] <bootstrap-brokers> <group> <topic1> <topic2> ..\n' % program_name)
+    options = '''
+ Options:
+  -T <intvl>   Enable client statistics at specified interval (ms)
+'''
+    sys.stderr.write(options)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    optlist, argv = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'T:')
+    if len(argv) < 3:
+        print_usage_and_exit(sys.argv[0])
+
+    broker = argv[0]
+    group = argv[1]
+    topics = argv[2:]
+    # Consumer configuration
+    # See https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md
+    '''
+    conf = {'bootstrap.servers': broker,'group.id': group, 'session.timeout.ms': 60000,
+            'auto.offset.reset': 'earliest'}
+    '''
+    conf = {'bootstrap.servers': broker,
+            'group.id': group,
+            'session.timeout.ms': 60000}
+
+    logger = logging.getLogger('openolt-kafka-consumer')
+    logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+    handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+    handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(asctime)-15s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s'))
+    logger.addHandler(handler)
+
+    # Create Consumer instance
+    # Hint: try debug='fetch' to generate some log messages
+    # c = Consumer(conf, logger=logger, debug='fetch')
+    c = Consumer(conf, logger=logger)
+
+    def print_assignment(consumer, partitions):
+        print('Assignment:', partitions)
+
+    # Subscribe to topics
+    c.subscribe(topics, on_assign=print_assignment)
+
+    # Read messages from Kafka, print to stdout
+    try:
+        while True:
+            msg = c.poll(timeout=1.0)
+            if msg is None:
+                continue
+            elif not msg.error():
+                print(msg.value())
+            elif msg.error().code() == KafkaError._PARTITION_EOF:
+                # print('End of partition reached {0}/{1}'
+                #       .format(msg.topic(), msg.partition()))
+                pass
+            else:
+                print('Error occured: {0}'.format(msg.error().str()))
+
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        pass
+
+    finally:
+        # Close down consumer to commit final offsets.
+        c.close()