GitHub user iconara opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2000
Make Partitioner a Closeable and close it when closing the producer Even though Partitioner has a close method it is not closed when the producer is closed. Serializers, interceptors and metrics are all closed, so partitioners should be closed to. Looking at [KAFKA-2091](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2091) (d6c45c70fb9773043766446e88370db9709e7995) that introduced the `Partitioner` interface it looks like the intention was that the producer should close the partitioner. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/iconara/kafka kafka-4284 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2000.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 #2000 ---- commit dcf85e553f69df7a3327166c56e16f3a12694c6c Author: Theo <t...@iconara.net> Date: 2016-10-10T11:06:12Z Make Partitioner a Closeable and close it when closing the producer Even though Partitioner has a close method it is not closed when the producer is closed. Serializers, interceptors and metrics are all closed, so partitioners should be closed to. ---- --- 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. ---