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Jying commented on KAFKA-2041: ------------------------------ has this been support in the now version . kafka-log4j-appender 0.11.0.0? > Add ability to specify a KeyClass for KafkaLog4jAppender > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2041 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2041 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: producer > Reporter: Benoy Antony > Assignee: Jun Rao > Attachments: kafka-2041-001.patch, kafka-2041-002.patch, > kafka-2041-003.patch, kafka-2041-004.patch, KAFKA-2041.patch > > > KafkaLog4jAppender is the Log4j Appender to publish messages to Kafka. > Since there is no key or explicit partition number, the messages are sent to > random partitions. > In some cases, it is possible to derive a key from the message itself. > So it may be beneficial to enable KafkaLog4jAppender to accept KeyClass which > will provide a key for a given message. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)