GitHub user nielsbasjes opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6181
[FLINK-9610] [flink-connector-kafka-base] Add Kafka Partitioner that uses the hash of the provided key. ## What is the purpose of the change Add the simple feature of being able to route records into Kafka using a key based partitioning. ## Brief change log - Added the FlinkKeyHashPartitioner class with some tests. ## Verifying this change This change added tests and can be verified as follows: - Use this instead of the FlinkFixedPartitioner while instantiating the FlinkKafkaProducer. Also add an KeyedSerializationSchema implementation that returns the right key that is to be used. ## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts: - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): no - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: yes - The serializers: no - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): no - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: no - The S3 file system connector: no ## Documentation - Does this pull request introduce a new feature? yes - If yes, how is the feature documented? JavaDocs You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/nielsbasjes/flink KafkaKeyHashPartitioner Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6181.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 #6181 ---- commit 22f814cab0710653ec1766531db7077f9e8fd534 Author: Niels Basjes <nbasjes@...> Date: 2018-06-18T19:16:22Z [FLINK-9610] Add Kafka Partitioner that uses the hash of the provided key ---- ---