How to read data using Kafka Consumer API from beginning?

Question

Please can anyone tell me how to read messages using the Kafka Consumer API from the beginning every time when I run the consumer.

Answer 1

1) https://stackoverflow.com/a/17084401/3821653

2) http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-users/201403.mbox/%3CCAOG_4QYz2ynH45a8kXb8qw7xw4vDRRwNqMn5j9ERFxJ8RfKGCg@mail.gmail.com%3E

To reset the consumer group, you can delete the Zookeeper group id

 import kafka.utils.ZkUtils;
 ZkUtils.maybeDeletePath(, );`