GitHub user ijuma opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/542
KAFKA-2847; Remove principal builder class from client configs Also mark `PrincipalBuilder` as `Unstable` and tweak docs. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ijuma/kafka kafka-2847-remove-principal-builder-class-from-client-configs Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/542.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #542 ---- commit 88ccdfb961ec4adc82121b1ed44a198a4dbe4f89 Author: Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> Date: 2015-11-17T12:48:25Z Remove principal.builder.class from client configs commit ce2c307bae8da40bed4eb53cc209c65973b72331 Author: Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> Date: 2015-11-17T12:52:35Z Mark the `PrincipalBuilder` interface as `Unstable` I think it would be good to use it for SASL too and that may require the interface to be changed. commit 70249b1502e32c0ea484e398b318545a500ecb12 Author: Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> Date: 2015-11-17T12:53:44Z Mention in docs for `PRINCIPAL_BUILDER_CLASS_DOC` that it's only used for `SecurityProtocol.SSL` ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---