Thanks for the KIP Rajini. Quick thought, it would be good to have a common module outside of clients that only applies to server side interfaces & changes. It looks like we are increasingly in favor of using Java interface for pluggable modules on the broker side.
Thanks, Harsha On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 2:31 PM, Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have created a KIP to replace the Scala Authorizer API with a new Java > API: > > - > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/ > KIP-504+-+Add+new+Java+Authorizer+Interface > > This is replacement for KIP-50 which was accepted but never merged. Apart > from moving to a Java API consistent with other pluggable interfaces in the > broker, KIP-504 also attempts to address known limitations in the > authorizer. If you have come across other limitations that you would like > to see addressed in the new API, please raise these on the discussion > thread so that we can consider those too. All suggestions and feedback are > welcome. > > Thank you, > > Rajini >