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Our organization is currently planning a migration from RocketMQ to Pulsar. To facilitate this transition, we aim to implement a standardized abstraction layer for MQ clients that encapsulates implementation details of specific messaging systems. This abstraction layer will allow seamless engine replacement while maintaining consistent client interfaces. However, two critical compatibility issues hinder the unification of message fetching patterns between RocketMQ/Kafka and Pulsar:

  1. Interface Disparity:
    Pulsar currently lacks native support for offset-based message fetching (fetch/pull paradigm) that allows specifying exact message positions and batch sizes.

  2. Positioning Mechanism Mismatch:

    • RocketMQ/Kafka: Utilize monotonically increasing numerical offsets for message positioning and acknowledgment
    • Pulsar: Relies on composite MessageID (ledgerId + entryId + batchIndex) for message identification.

Therefore, I propose to contribute a customized feature implementation to the Pulsar contributor repository that leverages existing Pulsar APIs to achieve functionality similar to RocketMQ's pull consumer. This implementation could serve companies like ours with standardized client requirements, allowing them to reuse this solution.

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Implement RocketMQ-like pull consumer functionality using existing Pulsar APIs.

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Change the title to
[improve][pcip] PCIP-5 Support Pull Consumer For Pulsar

@liangyepianzhou liangyepianzhou changed the title [feat][client] Support Pull Consumer For Pulsar [improve][pcip] PCIP-5 Support Pull Consumer For Pulsar Jun 26, 2025
@liangyepianzhou liangyepianzhou force-pushed the pull_consumer branch 2 times, most recently from 025b80d to 2a988fa Compare June 26, 2025 09:44
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@liangyepianzhou liangyepianzhou marked this pull request as draft July 8, 2025 01:47
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StevenLuMT commented Nov 4, 2025

@liangyepianzhou Let's shut this down. I've submitted a new one based on the new format and some feature fixes. The link is #24

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