Github user cestella commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/958#discussion_r174181759
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metron-contrib/metron-performance/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/performance/load/SendToKafka.java
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+package org.apache.metron.performance.load;
+
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer;
+import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.TimerTask;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Future;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
+
+public class SendToKafka extends TimerTask {
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well, I mean, I suppose it could be, but I didn't see value in it since all
of our inputs currently are strings and the message generator exclusively
generates strings, not other messages. It'd be a more serious refactoring to
genericize this to make the message generator pluggable. Also, for utility
code, I think I'd rather avoid prematurely generalizing it. Let me know what
you think.
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