Hey guys, I definitely think that the constructors could have been better designed, but I think given that they're in heavy use I don't think this proposal will improve things. Deprecating constructors just leaves everyone with lots of warnings and crossed out things. We can't actually delete the methods because lots of code needs to be usable across multiple Kafka versions, right? So we aren't picking between the original approach (worse) and the new approach (better); what we are proposing is a perpetual mingling of the original style and the new style with a bunch of deprecated stuff, which I think is worst of all.
I'd vote for just documenting the meaning of null in the ProducerRecord constructor. -Jay On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Stephane Maarek < steph...@simplemachines.com.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > My first KIP, let me know your thoughts! > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP+ > 141+-+ProducerRecordBuilder+Interface > > > Cheers, > Stephane >
