Re: producer changes

2012-10-05 Thread Jay Kreps
Okay, I looked into this more. I think there are actually a number of changes that should be made here, and it might be better to really think it through and do a more serious project to get this right. So three things to discuss: - I propose we make no change in the producer api in 0.8. Return

producer changes

2012-10-04 Thread Jay Kreps
Hey guys, Two quick things: 1. There is a proposed change to ProducerData to allow us to retain the partition key with the message here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-544 This would also mean changing the Encoder/Decoder interface. Since this impacts the user-facing APIs I think i