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Jay Kreps updated KAFKA-925:
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Attachment: KAFKA-925-post-commit-v1.patch
Yeah fair point. I didn't realize we had a special infinity value so I used
Int.MaxValue to be "a long time". Attached is a patch that fixes that and
cleans up some of the cli docs.
> Add optional partition key override in producer
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>
> Key: KAFKA-925
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-925
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: producer
> Affects Versions: 0.8.1
> Reporter: Jay Kreps
> Assignee: Jay Kreps
> Fix For: 0.8.1
>
> Attachments: KAFKA-925-post-commit-v1.patch, KAFKA-925-v1.patch,
> KAFKA-925-v2.patch
>
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> We have a key that is used for partitioning in the producer and stored with
> the message. Actually these uses, though often the same, could be different.
> The two meanings are effectively:
> 1. Assignment to a partition
> 2. Deduplication within a partition
> In cases where we want to allow the client to take advantage of both of these
> and they aren't the same it would be nice to allow them to be specified
> separately.
> To implement this I added an optional partition key to KeyedMessage. When
> specified this key is used for partitioning rather than the message key. This
> key is of type Any and the parametric typing is removed from the partitioner
> to allow it to work with either key.
> An alternative would be to allow the partition id to specified in the
> KeyedMessage. This would be slightly more convenient in the case where there
> is no partition key but instead you know a priori the partition number--this
> case must be handled by giving the partition id as the partition key and
> using an identity partitioner which is slightly more roundabout. However this
> is inconsistent with the normal partitioning which requires a key in the case
> where the partition is determined by a key--in that case you would be
> manually calling your partitioner in user code. It seems best to me to either
> use a key or always a partition and since we currently take a key I stuck
> with that.
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