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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-9610: --------------------------------------- Github user tedyu commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6181#discussion_r196368052 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-base/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/partitioner/FlinkKeyHashPartitioner.java --- @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one + * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file + * distributed with this work for additional information + * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file + * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the + * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance + * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ + +package org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.partitioner; + +import org.apache.flink.annotation.PublicEvolving; +import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions; + +import javax.annotation.Nullable; + +import java.util.Arrays; + +/** + * A partitioner that uses the hash of the provided key to distribute + * the values over the partitions as evenly as possible. + * This partitioner ensures that all records with the same key will be sent to + * the same Kafka partition. + * + * <p>Note that this will cause a lot of network connections to be created between + * all the Flink instances and all the Kafka brokers. + */ +@PublicEvolving +public class FlinkKeyHashPartitioner<T> extends FlinkKafkaPartitioner<T> { + + private static final long serialVersionUID = -2006468063065010594L; + + @Override + public int partition(T record, byte[] key, byte[] value, String targetTopic, int[] partitions) { + Preconditions.checkArgument( + partitions != null && partitions.length > 0, + "Partitions of the target topic is empty."); + + return partitions[hash(key) % partitions.length]; --- End diff -- Should we guard against hash(key) % partitions.length < 0 (in case someone overrides hash()) ? > Add Kafka partitioner that uses the key to partition by > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-9610 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9610 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Kafka Connector > Reporter: Niels Basjes > Assignee: Niels Basjes > Priority: Major > > The kafka connector package only contains the FlinkFixedPartitioner > implementation of the FlinkKafkaPartitioner. > The most common usecase I have seen is the need to spread the records across > the Kafka partitions while keeping all messages with the same key together. > I'll put up a pull request with a very simple implementation that should make > this a lot easier for others to use and extend. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)