Configuring a consumer group

package myPackage;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerRecord;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerRecords;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer;

import java.net.*;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Properties;

import com.google.gson.JsonObject;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public final class SimpleConsumer {
    private static final String GROUP_ID = "externalGroupForTest";
    private static final String KAFKA_URL = "localhost:9092";
    private static final String AUTO_COMMIT_INTERVAL = "1000";
    private static final String SESSION_TIMEOUT = "30000";
    private static final String TOPIC_NAME = "data-history";

    private static final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    public static final String TASK_RESOURCE_TYPE = "org.talend.datasteward.tasks.model.Task";
    public static final String CURRENT_STATE = "currentState";
    public static final String TARGET_STATE = "Resolved";
    public static final String TRANSITION_ACTION = "transition";

    private static final String SLACK_URL = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxx/xxxx/xxxxx
";
    private static final String SLACK_USER_NAME = "TDS Resolved tasks bot";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // Kafka consumer configuration
        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.put("bootstrap.servers", KAFKA_URL);
        props.put("group.id", GROUP_ID);
        props.put("enable.auto.commit", "true");
        props.put("auto.commit.interval.ms", AUTO_COMMIT_INTERVAL);
        props.put("session.timeout.ms", SESSION_TIMEOUT);
        props.put("key.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
        props.put("value.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
        KafkaConsumer<String, String> consumer = new KafkaConsumer(props);

        // Kafka consumer subscription
        consumer.subscribe(Arrays.asList(TOPIC_NAME));

        // Start listening
        while (true) {
            ConsumerRecords<String, String> records = consumer.poll(100);
            for (ConsumerRecord<String, String> record : records) {
                // Get data event
                DataEvent dataEvent = objectMapper.readValue(record.value(), DataEvent.class);

                // Filter transition to Resolved state events
                if(isTaskEvent(dataEvent) && isTransitionEvent(dataEvent) && isTargetStateResolved(dataEvent)) {
                    // Consume message, here is an example showing how to send a slack notification of the event

                    // 1. Extract task id, previous and new state
                    FieldModification fieldModification = dataEvent.getDetail().stream().filter(d -> "currentState".equals(d.getPath())).findFirst().get();
                    // 2. Build message
                    String messageBody = "The state of task *" + dataEvent.getResourceId() + "* has been updated from *"
                            + fieldModification.getPreviousValue() + "* to *" + fieldModification.getNewValue() + "*.";
                    JsonObject message = new JsonObject();
                    message.addProperty("username", SLACK_USER_NAME);
                    message.addProperty("text", messageBody);
                    message.addProperty("unfurl_media", false);
                    message.addProperty("unfurl_links", false);
                    message.addProperty("link_names", false);

                    // 3. Send message
                    sendSlackNotification(message);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    private static boolean isTargetStateResolved(DataEvent x) {
       return x.getDetail().stream()
                .anyMatch(detail -> CURRENT_STATE.equals(detail.getPath()) && TARGET_STATE.equals(detail.getNewValue()));
    }

    private static boolean isTransitionEvent(DataEvent x) {
        return TRANSITION_ACTION.equals(x.getAction());
    }

    private static boolean isTaskEvent(DataEvent x) {
        return TASK_RESOURCE_TYPE.equals(x.getResourceType());
    }

    private static String sendSlackNotification(JsonObject msg) throws Exception {
        HttpURLConnection connection = null;
        try {
            // Create connection
            final URL url = new URL(SLACK_URL);
            connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(Proxy.NO_PROXY);
            connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
            connection.setUseCaches(false);
            connection.setDoInput(true);
            connection.setDoOutput(true);

            final String payload = "payload=" + URLEncoder.encode(msg.toString(), "UTF-8");

            // Send request
            final DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
            wr.writeBytes(payload);
            wr.flush();
            wr.close();

            // Get Response
            final InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
            final BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
            String line;
            StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
            while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
                response.append(line);
                response.append('\n');
            }

            rd.close();
            return response.toString();
        }  finally {
            if (connection != null) {
                connection.disconnect();
            }
        }
    }
}