MirrorMaker consumer does not use broker.list property

Hi,

I'd like to bump this issue:
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-users/201212.mbox/%3CFA0E8A0482D176408729D604142248F319D22CA7%40EXCHANGE14.actuate.com%3E
as I'm encountering the same problem.

It seems that the MirrorMaker does the following:
1) if zk.connect is defined for the consumer, MirrorMaker script ignores
broker.list value
2) if zk.connect is not definied for the consumer, MirrorMaker fails with
an error message:

[2013-05-28 11:24:57,457] INFO group1_ip-<hostname> Connecting to zookeeper
instance at null (kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector)
[2013-05-28 11:24:57,457] INFO Initiating client connection,
connectString=null sessionTimeout=6000
watcher=org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient [ at ] c820344(org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper)
[2013-05-28 11:24:57,461] INFO Starting ZkClient event thread.
(org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn.<init>(ClientCnxn.java:361)
at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn.<init>(ClientCnxn.java:332)
at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.<init>(ZooKeeper.java:383)
at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection.connect(ZkConnection.java:64)
at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.connect(ZkClient.java:872)
at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.<init>(ZkClient.java:98)
at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.<init>(ZkClient.java:84)
at
kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.connectZk(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:152)
at
kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.<init>(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:122)
at
kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.<init>(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:129)
at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$$anonfun$3.apply(MirrorMaker.scala:102)
at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$$anonfun$3.apply(MirrorMaker.scala:102)
at
scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:206)
at
scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:206)
at
scala.collection.LinearSeqOptimized$class.foreach(LinearSeqOptimized.scala:61)
at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:45)
at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:206)
at scala.collection.immutable.List.map(List.scala:45)
at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$.main(MirrorMaker.scala:102)
at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker.main(MirrorMaker.scala)

The command I run is

$KAFKA_ROOT/bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.MirrorMaker
--consumer.config ./mirror_consumer.properties --producer.config
./mirror_producer.properties --whitelist=".*" --num.streams 1

The ./mirror_consumer.properties file contains:

broker.list=1:localhost:59092,2:localhost:59093
groupid=group1
shallowiterator.enable=true

When broker.list is commented out and zk.connect is defined instead (or
when both are defined), mirroring happens successfully.

Any leads?

Thank you,
Aman