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Jun Rao commented on KAFKA-697:
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Thanks for the latest patch. Committed to 0.8 and merged to trunk.
                
> ConsoleConsumer throws InvalidConfigException for "." in client id
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>                 Key: KAFKA-697
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-697
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: John Fung
>            Assignee: Swapnil Ghike
>         Attachments: kafka-697-allow-dot.patch, kafka-697.patch
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> kafka.common.InvalidConfigException: client.id console-consumer-16946-ConsumerFetcherThread-console-consumer-16946_XXXX-host18.corp-1358006528116-991e3f2d-0-1 is illegal, contains a character other than ASCII alphanumerics, _ and -
>         at kafka.common.Config$class.validateChars(Config.scala:32)
>         at kafka.consumer.ConsumerConfig$.validateChars(ConsumerConfig.scala:25)
>         at kafka.consumer.ConsumerConfig$.validateClientId(ConsumerConfig.scala:55)
>         at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.<init>(SimpleConsumer.scala:88)
>         at kafka.server.AbstractFetcherThread.<init>(AbstractFetcherThread.scala:44)
>         at kafka.consumer.ConsumerFetcherThread.<init>(ConsumerFetcherThread.scala:27)
>         at kafka.consumer.ConsumerFetcherManager.createFetcherThread(ConsumerFetcherManager.scala:93)
>         at kafka.server.AbstractFetcherManager.addFetcher(AbstractFetcherManager.scala:44)
>         at kafka.consumer.ConsumerFetcherManager$$anon$1$$anonfun$doWork$3.apply(ConsumerFetcherManager.scala:75)
>         at kafka.consumer.ConsumerFetcherManager$$anon$1$$anonfun$doWork$3.apply(ConsumerFetcherManager.scala:72)
>         at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:80)
>         at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:80)
>         at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:631)
>         at scala.collection.mutable.HashTable$$anon$1.foreach(HashTable.scala:161)
>         at scala.collection.mutable.HashTable$class.foreachEntry(HashTable.scala:194)
>         at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreachEntry(HashMap.scala:39)
>         at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreach(HashMap.scala:80)
>         at kafka.consumer.ConsumerFetcherManager$$anon$1.doWork(ConsumerFetcherManager.scala:72)
>         at kafka.utils.ShutdownableThread.run(ShutdownableThread.scala:50)

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