[KAFKA-909] Provide support in the producer to specify a stateful instance of an Encoder, like the consuemr allows with the Decoder

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.2.0
• Component/s: producer
• Labels: features
• Environment: Kafka 0.8, jdk 6
• Assignee: Jun Rao
• Reporter: Rob Withers
• Created: 17/May/13 17:53
• Updated: 07/Feb/15 23:00
• Resolved: 07/Feb/15 23:00

Description

It is very useful to have a shared instance of the Encoder, to do advanced encoding. The consumer allows the ability to set the Decoder instance and achieve this capability. The producer should offer the same capability.