+1 BTW, instead of having a random key, can we just dispatch the messages without a key in the round-robin fashion? It just works like the Shared subscription.
Regards, Penghui On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:32 AM Yubiao Feng <yubiao.f...@streamnative.io.invalid> wrote: > Hi all > > ### Background > Regarding Key_Shared mode, messages without message-key will default to > "NONE_KEY". > > ### Issue > In a topic, if half of the messages contain a message-key and the other > half do not. This will result in the consumer who occupies the key-range of > "NONE_KEY" consuming more much messages than others. > > ### What I want to do > I want to add a new config to switch the behavior when the message does > not contain a message-key: > - the policy exists: default the message-key to "NONE_KEY". > - the new policy: default the message-key to a random value when the > message does not contain a key. > > > Thanks > Yubiao Feng >
