No. In 0.8, if you don't specify a key for a message, it is sent to any of the available partitions. In other words, the partition id is selected on the partition and the server doesn't get -1 as the partition id.
Thanks, Neha On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Dave Peterson <dspeter...@tagged.com>wrote: > In the version 0.8 wire format for a produce request, does a value of -1 > still indicate "use a random partition" as it did for 0.7? > > Thanks, > Dave >
