gaborgsomogyi commented on a change in pull request #23791: 
[SPARK-20597][SQL][SS][WIP] KafkaSourceProvider falls back on path as synonym 
for topic
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/23791#discussion_r262474835
 
 

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 File path: docs/structured-streaming-kafka-integration.md
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 @@ -457,8 +463,17 @@ The following configurations are optional:
   <td>string</td>
   <td>none</td>
   <td>streaming and batch</td>
+  <td>Sets the topic that all rows will be written to in Kafka. This option 
overrides
+  ```path``` option and any topic column that may exist in the data.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>path</td>
+  <td>string</td>
+  <td>none</td>
+  <td>streaming and batch</td>
   <td>Sets the topic that all rows will be written to in Kafka. This option 
overrides any
-  topic column that may exist in the data.</td>
+  topic column that may exist in the data and is overridden by ```topic``` 
option.
 
 Review comment:
   I agree the first solution is more complicated but not fully understand why 
is it error-prone? Having checks in 2 different places which are belonging 
together is the error-prone solution. Of course good unit test coverage is 
required.

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