The very first message triggers the creation of the topic. Once the topic is created, the producer can know the # of partitions.
Thanks, Jun On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Jane Wang <ja...@twitter.com> wrote: > I am using kafka 0.7. and I write a simple customized partitioner: > > public static class ExpertSearchCollectionPartitioner > implementsPartitioner<Long> { > > @Override > > public synchronized int partition(Long key, int numPartitions) { > > System.out.print(" partition: " + key.hashCode() + ", " + > numPartitions + ", " + (key.hashCode() % numPartitions) + "\n"); > > return (int) (key.hashCode() % (long)numPartitions); > > } > > } > > > I got a weird problem. When I ran the producer, for the first one or two > message, the numPartitions is always 1. however, after that, > > it starts to get the value (96, which I config in server.property) > > > anyone has any clue? hint? suggestions? > > > Thanks! >