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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-1642:
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Github user cestella commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1082#discussion_r199552106
--- Diff:
metron-platform/metron-writer/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/writer/kafka/KafkaWriter.java
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@@ -197,6 +209,15 @@ public void init(Map stormConf, TopologyContext
topologyContext, WriterConfigura
return producerConfig;
}
+ public Optional<String> getKafkaTopic(JSONObject message) {
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They absolutely could create loops in kafka, which wouldn't be ideal. I
don't know how I could prevent it, sadly. I think this falls in the "with
great power comes great responsibility". Should we call this a spiderman bug
(spiderbug?).
> KafkaWriter should be able choose the topic from a field in addition to
> topology construction time
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> Key: METRON-1642
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-1642
> Project: Metron
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Casey Stella
> Priority: Major
>
> Currently, we choose the kafka topic via the kafka.topic field. It would be
> useful to allow people to specify the topic via a field. This would enable
> multi-stage (or chain) parsing, among other use-cases.
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