It is the topic the record will be send to. Most serializers ignore this parameter. If could be used to pick a different serialization format for different topics.
-Matthias On 5/15/20 2:30 AM, Pushkar Deole wrote: > Hi All, > > I am writing a Json customer serializer for our customer objects, which > need to implement the Kafka Serializer interface. > I am wondering what the input parameter "topic" is in the > Serializer.serialize method. > I don't think it is the topic on which data is to be published. Please > correct me if I am wrong, and provide significance of this parameter. > > Thanks. >
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