Thanks for the KIP.

+1

@John: compare
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-100+-+Relax+Type+constraints+in+Kafka+Streams+API
about the generics


-Matthias

On 5/15/18 11:19 AM, John Roesler wrote:
> Thanks for the KIP, Guozhang.
> 
> It looks good overall to me; I just have one question:
> * Why do we bound the generics of KVMapper in KStream to be superclass-of-K
> and superclass-of-V instead of exactly K and V, as in Topology? I might be
> thinking about it wrong, but that seems backwards to me. If anything,
> bounding to be a subclass-of-K or subclass-of-V would seem right to me.
> 
> One extra thought: I agree that KVMapper<K,V,String /*topic name*/> is an
> applicable type for extracting the topic name, but I wonder what the value
> of reusing the KVMapper for this purpose is. Would defining a new class,
> say TopicNameExtractor<K,V>, provide the same functionality while being a
> bit more self-documenting?
> 
> Thanks,
> -John
> 
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:32 AM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I'd like to start a discussion on adding dynamic routing functionality in
>> Streams sink node. I.e. users do not need to specify the topic name at
>> compilation time but can dynamically determine which topic to send to based
>> on each record's key value pairs. Please find a KIP here:
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-
>> 303%3A+Add+Dynamic+Routing+in+Streams+Sink
>>
>> Any feedbacks are highly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -- Guozhang
>>
> 

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