[CAMEL-16060] camel-kafka - decouple kafka.PARTITION_KEY from kafka.KEY

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.7.0, 2.25.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.10.0
• Component/s: camel-kafka
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jens Kordowski
• Created: 18/Jan/21 13:19
• Updated: 09/Apr/21 07:44
• Resolved: 28/Mar/21 13:26

Description

Currently, the camel-kafka producer requires the definition of kafka.PARTITION_KEY and kafka.KEY to specify the partition to send to. While the key is usually used to determine the partition to send to, I don't understand the hard limitation on this header, when specifically defining the exact partition to send to anyway (via kafka.PARTITION_KEY).

Also, this is not clearly stated in the documentation.

Not sure, if this qualifies as bug or improvement, looks like a limitation to me. I can create a PR, if desired.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5263