Re: Custom metadata in message header

2015-11-17 Thread Lance Laursen
Hey Lesong, Unfortunately not. Any metadata you would like to include must be placed in the message payload. This means you must consume each message and process it in order to determine whether it is relevant to your current task. You can achieve some data locality by using keyed messages and an

Custom metadata in message header

2015-11-17 Thread Lesong Jia
Hey all, I am new to Kafka. Is there a way to provide a custom metadata in the message header? Thanks, Lesong