Key field? Also, the above-
>>>>> mentioned partition identifier is a 32-bit integer and the Key field of
>>>>> each individual message can contain data of arbitrary length, which
>>>>> seems inconsistent. Is a partition identifier a 32-bit inte
The key is used by the client to decide which partition to send the
message to. By the time the client is creating the produce request, it
should be known which partition each message is being sent to. I believe
Neha described the behavior of the Java client which sends messages with
a null key to
this API a bit?
I'd like to write a consumer that can start from 0 (like unix cat) or
start from the most recent (like unix tail).
Thanks!
-David
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