Some scala utils for working w/ kafka SimpleConsumer. realized there was a way for me to use the ConsumerGroup API instead, so putting this here just in case its useful to me later on ...

KafkaSimpleConsumerUtils.scala

import kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer
import kafka.common.TopicAndPartition
import kafka.api._
import scala.annotation.tailrec
import scala.util._

object KafkaSimpleConsumerUtils {

  def getLastOffset(consumer: SimpleConsumer, topic: String, partition: Int, whichTime: Long, clientName: String): Try[Long] = {
    val tap = new TopicAndPartition(topic, partition)
    val request = new kafka.api.OffsetRequest(Map(tap -> PartitionOffsetRequestInfo(whichTime, 1)))
    val response = consumer.getOffsetsBefore(request)

    if (response.hasError) {
      val err = response.partitionErrorAndOffsets(tap).error
      Failure(new KafkaException("Error fetching data Offset Data the Broker. Reason: " + err))
    } else {
      //offsets is sorted in descending order, we always want the first
      Success(response.partitionErrorAndOffsets(tap).offsets(0))
    }
  }

  @tailrec
  def findConsumerAndDo[T](seedBrokers:List[String], port: Int, consumerName: String)(f: SimpleConsumer => T): Option[(SimpleConsumer,T)] =
    seedBrokers match {
      case Nil => None
      case seed :: others =>
        Try{
          val consumer = new SimpleConsumer(seed, port, 100000, 64 * 1024, consumerName)
          val r = f(consumer)
          Some((consumer,r))
        } match {
          case Success(r) => r
          case Failure(ex) =>
            findConsumerAndDo(others, port, consumerName)(f)
        }
    }

  def findLeader(seedBrokers:List[String], port:Int, consumerName: String, topic: String, partition: Int): Option[PartitionMetadata] = {
    findConsumerAndDo(seedBrokers, port, consumerName) {consumer =>
      findLeader(consumer, topic, partition)
    }.map{_._2}.flatten
  }

  def findLeader(consumer: SimpleConsumer, topic: String, partition: Int): Option[PartitionMetadata] = {
    val topics = Seq(topic)
    val req: TopicMetadataRequest = new TopicMetadataRequest(topics, 0)
    val resp: TopicMetadataResponse = consumer.send(req)
    val metaData = resp.topicsMetadata
    (for {
      item <- metaData.iterator
      part <- item.partitionsMetadata.iterator
    } yield part).find(part => part.partitionId == partition)

  }

}